Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Alternative names for binaries in app-text/cook and dev-util/cook

[Barry Shaw]

Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
> Hi Gentoonies.
>
> Both app-text/cook and dev-util/cook install the binary /usr/bin/cook. This is
> of course less than ideal.
>

I thought that all of the ebuilds in portage were supposed to have 
unique package names.  I seem to recall reading this somewhere in the 
gentoo docs but I have been unable to find it again.

The reason that I mention this is that it causes lots of problems when 
using binary packaging as portage keeps all of the binaries in 
/usr/portage/packages/All.  The binaries in this directory are named 
solely after their package name (there is no category name information) 
and in the (unlikely) event that two such packages have identical 
version numbers, one would end up over writing the other.

I've noticed a number of packages with identical names, particularly in 
the app-xemacs and app-emacs categories.  I can supply a list of the 
name clashes that I have encountered if required.

Baz





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