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Beattie
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 Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2002 3:41 pm Post subject: caps in ebuild names |
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| Does anyone else think it might be a good idea to have all ebuilds/packages named in all lower case or something like that? it just makes it easier to find things. for example, I was just installing pyqt and it took me a few minutes before I realized it was PyQt. I dunno, just a thought. |
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klieber
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| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2002 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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AFAIK, emerge is case-insensitve. The following:
Turns up dev-python/PyQt, just like I'd expect it to.
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rac
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klieber may have assumed that you were using "emerge -s" because you mentioned "find things". You're right that if you just try a straight emerge, like ...it won't pick up PyQt. I can't speak for other languages, but Perl has a history of core modules being in all lowercase, and contributed ones starting with an uppercase letter, to prevent namespace collisions, and some ebuilds may have decided to follow this convention, as it would be easier for Perl programmers to remember. Perhaps Python has a similar convention?
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klieber
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| rac wrote: | | klieber may have assumed that you were using "emerge -s" because you mentioned "find things" |
Probably should have clarified that a bit... 
If emerge -s is case-insensitive, then that would seem to be an adequate method of locating ebuilds, even if you must then use the case-sensitive version to install a specified package.
IOW, I don't see the upper/lower case thing being that big of a deal, given the way that Portage currently handles it.
BTW, moving to gentoo suggestions.
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