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From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@...>
Subject: Re: category sci-geosciences redundant ?
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:02:02 +0900
maillog: 17/03/2005-13:22:15(-0700): Jason Wever types
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Lance Albertson wrote:
> 
> > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> >> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:18:39 -0500 Olivier Cr�te <tester@g.o>
> >> wrote:
> >> | Don't we already have rules that forbid two packages having the same
> >> | name ?
> >>
> >> Uh, no. See, we have categories to avoid this problem. Upstream naming
> >> takes priority.
> >
> > If thats the case, why is Firefox called mozilla-firefox ?
> 
> Probably because the application calls itself Mozilla Firefox (see title 
> bar and Help > About Mozilla Firefox in the menu) :)

So how come I cannot install it by typing

emerge "Mozilla Firefox"

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