On 12/03/2016 07:00 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Saturday, December 3, 2016 8:59:09 AM EST Michał Górny wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 23:26:53 -0800 >> >> Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> On 12/02/2016 10:47 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>>> >>>> I'd say keeping things lowercase makes sense for end user packages. For >>>> pure dependencies with consistent conventions (e.g. perl), it makes >>>> sense to keep upstream's naming. >>> >>> What is a pure dependency? Do we handle those differently than the >>> garden-variety dependencies in other packages? >> >> It is a package that is rarely installed directly, and rather commonly >> taken as a dependency of another package. For example, packages that >> install no programs and just Perl/Python/... modules. > > Keep in mind some will emerge libraries dependencies for their own projects > and development. They do not always have to be merged as a dependency of > another package. > > It might be confusing to know when it is acceptable to use mixed case and not. > I think Michał was talking strictly in the case of a library being pulled in as a dependency, e.g. program A is depending on library B, but library B is so specialized that it doesn't really get pulled in manually. When emerging program A, library B is pure. When emerging library B deliberately, it becomes the target package.
(If I have this wrong please correct me, Michał. Also forgive me if the glyph for the last letter in your name is wrong.) -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6
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