On 12/02/2016 10:45 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 02/12/16 01:31 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:24:29 -0500 >> Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Ciaran McCreesh >>> <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:02:48 -0500 >>>> Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>> The devmanual states: >>>>> >>>>> The name section should contain only lowercase non-accented >>>>> letters, the digits 0-9, hyphens, underscores and plus characters. >>>>> Uppercase characters are strongly discouraged, but technically >>>>> valid. >>>>> >>>>> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Why are uppercase characters strongly discouraged? >>>>> >>>>> Wouldn't it make sense to follow upstream's naming convention? >>>> >>>> What's upstream's naming convention for Firefox? >>> >>> I have no idea. What's your point? >> >> That naming conventions are generally complicated and a mess, and that >> no-one wants to have to remember whether it's firefox, Firefox, or >> FireFox. >> > > It's also more convenient at the consone to just type everything > lowercase. I expect that's the primary reason it's discouraged. > > > > That seems the most likely to me as well.
We could make a more "user friendly" feature by setting up bash completion for package names, but that sounds a) daunting, b) error-prone, and c) probably not worth the time spent writing the script(s) necessary. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6
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