On 12/02/2016 10:47 AM, Michał Górny 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?
> 
> I'd say keeping things lowercase makes sense for end user packages. For
> pure dependencies with consistent conventions (e.g. perl), it makes
> sense to keep upstream's naming.
> 
What is a pure dependency? Do we handle those differently than the
garden-variety dependencies in other packages?

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