On Sunday 08 November 2009 12:15:44 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> 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?

of course -- fix the package manager to do a case insensitive search when 
someone says `emerge foo` but the package is actually "Foo".
-mike

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