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<H1>[Mageia-dev] RFC Package Naming Policy</H1>
<B>Thierry Vignaud</B>
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<I>Mon Jan 30 21:58:11 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 30 January 2012 20:15, Jerome Quelin <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">jquelin at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
>><i> Some of you may notice that the newly drafted policy allows
</I>>><i> upper-case letters in packages as an exception (when justified).
</I>>><i> This is to follow the current practice (which is not following the
</I>>><i> current policy, where we have packages like R-base).
</I>>><i> I don't want to raise a heated discussion (there was an inconclusive
</I>>><i> discussion a long time ago on cooker [*]) about enforcing an all
</I>>><i> lower-case policy. Not sure a consensus can be reached today, but
</I>>><i> lower-casing package names should be the default for 99% of the
</I>>><i> packages in Mageia.
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</I>><i> except it cannot be. perl module Foo::Bar is shipped in package
</I>><i> perl-Foo-Bar since quite a lot of time, per policy. so the ~2500 perl
</I>><i> packages are almost all using some upper-case, which make your 99%
</I>><i> figure totally wrong (2500 / 10000 = ~25% using upper case)
</I>><i>
</I>><i> note that perl packages shipping an application or a script useful on
</I>><i> their own do follow the policy and are called eg perlbrew, nopaste,
</I>><i> grok, etc.
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Well, the low case names policy did was a policy for years.
We slowly killed most upcase names over the years, perl being an
exception.
I think we should enforce it modulo perl
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