On Sunday 08 November 2009 10:25:56 Peter Volkov wrote:
> В Вск, 08/11/2009 в 09:40 -0500, Mike Frysinger пишет:
> > On Sunday 08 November 2009 08:35:10 Joe Sapp wrote:
> > > Samuli Suominen wrote:
> > > > Joe Sapp (nixphoeni) wrote:
> > > >> nixphoeni    09/10/27 11:21:25
> > > >>
> > > >> Log: Directory /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-plugins/desklet-Mouse
> > > >> added to the repository
> > > >
> > > > Since when did we start adding "big letters" to other than perl
> > > > -categories?
> > > >
> > > > *Very* ugly.
> > >
> > > Sorry about that, I thought it was a valid package name.  I did it
> > > because it better reflects the upstream naming schemes.  I suppose I
> > > could stop and move the few I've done so far back to all lowercase if
> > > there's enough consensus.
> >
> > it is a valid package name.  if it makes your life easier, you're allowed
> > to use the name.  some people prefer to normalize everything lowercase --
> > if they're maintaining the package, they're free to do that.
> 
> Until it was decided differently, no, it's not:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1#do
> c_chap3
> 
> "The first subsection, pkg, is the package name, which should only
> contain lowercase letters, the digits 0-9, and any number of single
> hyphen (-), underscore (_) or plus (+) characters."

try quoting from the PMS which has been council approved
-mike

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