>>>>> 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

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