On 12/02/2016 11:55 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 23:21:34 -0800 > Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> 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. > > There is a bash completion script for that for a long time now. > However, it no longer works correctly with new bash-completion versions > and it seems that nobody cares enough to fix it. > Oh, that's good to know. I didn't find anything relevant with 'bash-completion' in its name in the tree. Where should I look for this script?
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