Package names and capitalization. Why?

[Rodd Clarkson]

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.
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