On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 00:12:53 -0800 Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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? gentoo-bashcomp -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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