Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mail/exim
To: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/05/2005 17:06:56
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Roland Illig wrote:
>
>> Dieter Baron wrote:
>>> hi,
>>> 
>>>
>>>> 	Thanks - exim updated.
>>> 
>>>
>>>   Thank you.
>>> 
>>>
>>>> 	Also, we should have a standard for '-' or '_' in options. I would
>>>> 	guess '-' and pkglint should warn about any use of '_'?
>>> 
>>>
>>>   Yes, that sounds like a good idea.  Roland?
>> 
>> As far as I can see, '-' is used to separate the package name from the 
>> option name while '_' is used to separate multiple words in an option name. 
>> I don't see anything to check here.
>
> 	Some packages use '-' to separate multiple words in an option
> 	name. In fact I just changed exim from '_' to '-' to be more
> 	consistant with some other packages I checked. I'm happy to
> 	change it back, but we should have a (loud) standard and
> 	it should be checked by pkglint.

 	mk/defaults/options.description has mainly '-'...'-' using packages.

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