[pacman-dev] Letter case in pacman output

[Dave Reisner]

On May 29, 2013 5:51 PM, "Jason St. John" <jstjohn at purdue.edu> wrote:
>
> I briefly talked with Allan on IRC about changing letter casing in
> pacman's output (e.g. when running 'pacman -Qi'), and he stated that I
> should gather feedback on the mailing list.

-1 from me. This is useless churn.

> I would like to change from using title case to using sentence case
> where appropriate.
>
> An example of the change would be the following snippet from 'pacman -Qi'.
>
> ** Currently:
> Depends On     : coreutils  linux-firmware  kmod  mkinitcpio>=0.7
> Optional Deps  : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your
> country [installed]
> Required By    : None
> Optional For   : None
> Conflicts With : kernel26
> Replaces       : kernel26
> Installed Size : 65562.00 KiB
>
> ** After the proposed change:
> Depends on     : coreutils  linux-firmware  kmod  mkinitcpio>=0.7
> Optional deps  : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your
> country [installed]
> Required by    : None
> Optional for   : None
> Conflicts with : kernel26
> Replaces       : kernel26
> Installed size : 65562.00 KiB
>
> Pros: I think it looks better aesthetically (although Allan disagrees)
> and looks more professional.
> Cons: Increased workload for translators for the next pacman release.
>
> Jason
>