On Saturday, December 3, 2016 8:59:09 AM EST Michał Górny wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 23:26:53 -0800
> 
> Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On 12/02/2016 10:47 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > >
> > > 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?
> 
> It is a package that is rarely installed directly, and rather commonly
> taken as a dependency of another package. For example, packages that
> install no programs and just Perl/Python/... modules.

Keep in mind some will emerge libraries dependencies for their own projects 
and development. They do not always have to be merged as a dependency of 
another package.

It might be confusing to know when it is acceptable to use mixed case and not.

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.

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