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On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 01:13:48PM +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: |
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> Jeroen Roovers wrote: |
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> > On a minor note, I'd also like to see bug reporters use canonical |
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> > package names in bug descriptions, including the category (and |
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> > preferably the specific version, not some >=foo-3*!!!one, not to |
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> > mention specifying no version at all). Including the category means |
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> > arch devs won't need to guess/discover which of a few hundred categories |
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> > a package is meant to reside in. |
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> First off, I second that. Second, here's how you still get where you |
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> want without looking up the category: |
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> $ cd gentoo-x86/*/foo |
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This works better: |
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$ cd gentoo-x86/*/foo/ |
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This avoids the case where a file by the same name exists (for |
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example, in licenses/). |
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> This of course doesn't work if there are multiple packages with the same |
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> name in different categories, but if a package maintainer doesn't |
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> specify the category in such a case, he should be hit anyway ;P |
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