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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/games Makefile  ports/games/HeroesOfMightAndMagicMakefile
 pkg-comment  pkg-descrports/games/HeroesOfMightAndMagic/files pkg-plist.base
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On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote:

> From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/games Makefile  ports/games/HeroesOfMightAndMagicMakefile pkg-comment  pkg-descrports/games/HeroesOfMightAndMagic/files pkg-plist.base  pkg-plist.musicpkg-plist.scenario pkg-plist.tail pkg-plist.video ...
> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 13:48:23 +0200
> 
> > Our policy discourages using ports directories starting with capital letter.
> > Please delete and readd with corrected name.
> 
> It does?  First I'd heard of it.  Looking through INDEX also reveals
> that we have over 80 ports which do exactly that.  Some, like Xaw3d,
> have also been there for a very long time.

Have you heard of the rule about using underscores instead of hyphens in
file names? :-)  Almost all file names in non-contrib'ed code in
4.4BSD-Lite2 follow this rule.  Even pkg_install follows it :-).  But
ports actively break it (pkg-*).

Bruce


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