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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:40:43 -0600
From:      "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net>
To:        "Kirill Ponomarew" <krion@voodoo.oberon.net>
Cc:        Oliver Lehmann <oliver@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11 Makefile ports/x11/Terminal Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <opsk90x5w99aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050127193541.GC57021@voodoo.oberon.net>
References:  <200501271827.j0RIRfeP052265@repoman.freebsd.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0501271232580.30725-100000@pancho> <20050127202704.1241613c.oliver@FreeBSD.org> <20050127193105.GA22233@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050127193541.GC57021@voodoo.oberon.net>

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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:35:41 +0100, Kirill Ponomarew  
<krion@voodoo.oberon.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:31:05AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> > > I thought we were preferring lowercased port names?
>> >
>> > Even if the author of that software have choseen to write and use it
>> > uppercase?
>>
>> This is discussed in the porters' handbook.
>
> We're currently living with 77 uppercased PORTNAMEs' though.

Yes, compare to thousands. The 77 uppercased port should be change to  
lowercase. When I used to visit forum often and few rookie users can't  
find abiword, because it was 'AbiWord'. I think, it does matter.

Cheers,
Mezz

> -Kirill


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