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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:13:58AM -0700, George Shapovalov wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:06, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> > Policy is to avoid naming conflicts by using different names whenever |
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> > possible. |
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> Um, I don't think we have any policy on this matter. I was bringing this issue |
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> about a month ago and found that some devs believe we cannot have duplicate |
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> names (or avoid them whereever possible) others think oterwise... |
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> There was a thread initiated by not very happy user whose ebuild was renamed |
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> with the explanation that portage cannot reliably deal with this situation, |
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> however later on he found two identically named packages. |
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To clarify myself, Portage does need functionality to deal with |
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duplicates. |
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In the meantime, we shouldn't ever commit ebuilds with conflicting |
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names. That's been stated policy for some time, but the policy guide |
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hasn't been updated to reflect it, unfortunately. |
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Jon Portnoy |
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