>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ralf> Am Don, 2002-01-31 um 22.31 schrieb Alexandre Duret-Lutz: >> >>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Ralf> Am Don, 2002-01-31 um 17.27 schrieb Russ Allbery: >> [...] >> >> >> Why are you lowercasing the package name? >> >> For the same reason a leading `GNU ' is stripped: because for most >> packages this is the way to transform a package name into a tarball >> name. >> >> `GNU Autoconf' => `autoconf' Ralf> Hmm, do I really need to like this? Ralf> IMHO, this is equally bad and error-prone as lowercasing. Why Ralf> not letting program authors/maintain decide upon this? What the heck is your point? I don't care you like it or not. What matters is that *you* can do what you want, which is the case. What is your point about default values? As `defaults' they will not please everybody, and never meant to. Open your eyes: we never impose anything to anyone. You're fighting for your notion of default to be the new default. That makes us advance _a lot_ sure!
