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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 10:45:18AM -0500, Jason Bacon wrote:
> ...
> With that in mind, I would lean toward lowercasing PORTNAME (except
> where there is a clear convention, as in p5 and CRAN) unless pkg someday
> becomes fully case-insensitive, which would reduce the issue to a matter
> of style.

Thank you.

> I'm not sure if there are practical reasons that pkg is case-sensitive
> for some subcommands, but I think it would be more user-friendly to let
> the user just type everything in lowercase.

I agree here, albeit this (wether pkg(8) would be fixed or not) does not
change my general preference for the lowercase in port/package names.

./danfe