Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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

For EAPI 0 there's only an approved draft but nothing final. But even as
a draft it's more accurate than devrel handbook that in all reality
should loose all the technical stuff in favor of devmanual.

Regards,
Petteri

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