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Bug 38107

Summary: This ebuild has capitals?
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Luke Worth <luke_worth>
Component: [OLD] LibraryAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: trivial    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Luke Worth 2004-01-13 15:28:41 UTC
Yuck... Are ebuilds allowed to have capitals in the name? i don't think this is a good idea. I noticed some others had capitals too.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-01-13 15:34:31 UTC
packages are not allowed to have capitals (against naming policy, see the Gentoo docs)

yes, some do, like many of the perl ones ... we just ignore it and move on