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They don't coexist happily. It's impossible to say definitively which |
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one you'll get when you emerge appname if appname exists in two |
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different categories. |
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 05:42:43PM -0600, Dave Nellans wrote: |
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> do we have an established naming policy for ebuilds, and where can i |
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> find it? |
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> my gripe is that when i submitted the ebuild for a program named "balsa" |
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> (under app-sci/tbass) several devs told me i could not name it balsa |
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> because the gnome email client balsa already uses that name. i believed |
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> that is why apps were listed under app-sci, dev-db, etc... which is why |
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> this structure existed in the first place. i was told however this was |
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> not so and that this wasn't allowed. in the end the ebuild was called |
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> tbass which is very non-intuitive having a ebuild named something very |
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> dissimilar to its common name. |
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> all was fine untill i went to install ocaml and did emerge -s ocaml only |
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> to find there are TWO packages named ocaml that co-exist seemingly |
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> happily in different categories. this brings back my original question |
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> of if we have a specific naming policy or if some of the dev's are |
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> mistaken about things. |
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> if we don't have a naming policy yet, should we? it seems as if naming |
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> issues are becoming more significant now that the number of packages in |
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> portage continues to grow. |
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> any thoughts? |
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> dave |
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