On Sun, 07 Feb 1999, Joey Hess wrote: >Keita Maehara wrote: >> But the reason is not mentioned here. Some upstream sources use upper >> case letters for their name and we may also want to use upper case >> letters for our packages. Why can't we use upper case letters? > >For consitency. It's much easier if you know a package's name is always >lowercase, because then if you remember only the name you can find it >easily w/o worrying about case. It's also easier to type.
What if we allowed upper-case in package names in "dpkg -l" but allowed commands such as "dpkg --purge" to work if the capitalization is wrong (therefore we can't have two packages whos names only differ by case). These semantics of capitalization have worked well for email addresses... -- I am in London and would like to meet any Linux users here. I plan to work in London for 6 months and then I might move to some other place where the pay is good.
