cvs commit: ports/x11-fonts Makefile ports/x11-fonts/anonymousPro Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/x11-fonts/anonymousPro/files pkg-message.in

[Lucas Holt]

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.
> 
> 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
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