>>>>> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote: > [...] we've always had mixed case in the tree and anything that > parses the tree/ebuilds must support both if it has any chance of > working. this isnt going to change.
I think everyone agrees on this one. >> That doesn't necessarily imply that they should be used all over >> the tree. > if it makes maintaining a package easier (as appears to be the case > for Joe), then there's no technical reason whatsoever to tell him > otherwise. if you dislike mixed case, then dont use it. but Joe is > free to do so. Shouldn't the rationale be to make it easy for users, not for maintainers? Ulrich