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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