Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 15:49:06 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, "Jason W. Bacon" <jwb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r501873 - in head/biology: . gemma gemma/files Message-ID: <20190518154906.GA41853@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <95e5a6e0-94ff-bcf6-ca41-5aa2c4d000c5@gmail.com> References: <201905171445.x4HEjKE4084764@repo.freebsd.org> <20190518102522.GA45838@FreeBSD.org> <205369ac-7666-0d45-7f76-a473915a0eb9@gmail.com> <20190518131804.GA12903@FreeBSD.org> <4l5r-g8qj-wny@FreeBSD.org> <20190518141808.GA66822@FreeBSD.org> <95e5a6e0-94ff-bcf6-ca41-5aa2c4d000c5@gmail.com>
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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
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