On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 11:41 +0900, Naoki wrote: > Hi y'all, > > Is there any (good) reason for having uppercase characters in RPM file > names? If not, how about a policy against it? > > As a pretty basic example why it wouldn't seem to be a "good thing" we > have packages called Gconf* and *gconf* which just makes it that little > bit more annoying to deal with. This was discussed about 3 months ago, so check the archives. As a run down on the discussion. Fedora follows (where possible) the name given by the up-stream developer. It's not the business of Fedora to deal with changes to someone elses name for something. Most people would prefer that capitals weren't used for names. Have a look at the archives. R. -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
