On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 12:54 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 21:30 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Do we expect users to notice the specific case of the upstream projects > > in webpages, documentation and type it correctly in yum everytime? > > > > select -> insert Is that really a goal worth pursuing? Do we expect users to browse into the upstream tarball distribution dirs and select the name of a tarball without the version etc and paste it to their command line (assuming that's what the above means)? Or select it from other documentation where the app/project name is very likely to be spelled in different case than in the tarball? And how about the rest of the guidelines which say that certain packages must be prefixed eg. by perl-*, python-*, or be named like $appname-$plugin? What about subpackages? > _if_ we were ever to make package guidelines be lowercase only, we > would need to modify rpm, yum, etc... to accept caps and pass them as > lower case. As long as the filesystems, rest of the tools in the OS, URLs etc in use are case sensitive, I'm afraid that would not work too well in practice. All lowercase would not solve anywhere near all problems either (see above for some examples), but it would be a much less intrusive way to avoid some of them than the above suggestions, and would be easy to communicate/document. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
