Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:00:02 -0500 From: Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-fonts Makefile ports/x11-fonts/anonymousPro Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/x11-fonts/anonymousPro/files pkg-message.in Message-ID: <570CFC58-6F02-4F76-9C5D-D8E8523BE0E9@foolishgames.com> In-Reply-To: <4ED5F56F.6090007@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <201111292232.pATMWINp021704@repoman.freebsd.org> <20111130015504.GB3953@FreeBSD.org> <20111130090313.00003930@unknown> <20111130080947.GA95193@FreeBSD.org> <4ED5F0CA.9010504@FreeBSD.org> <4ED5F56F.6090007@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Nov 30, 2011, at 4:20 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 30/11/2011 09:00, Pav Lucistnik wrote: >> No, thats just your incorrect interpretation. There is nothing >> prohibiting capital letters in port names except the first character. >=20 > I'm curious as to the reasoning behind this? Is it simply to > distinguish things in the ports tree that aren't either ports or > categories? (Makefile, Mk, UIDs Tools etc.) If so, then why isn't it > also /usr/ports/Distfiles and /usr/ports/Packages ? I've always thought of it this way. In fact, that's one of the first = things we changed in mports for MidnightBSD. It's actually a trivial = change, but it might break a few third party scripts. Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ MidnightBSD.org (Free OS) JustJournal.com (Free blogging)
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