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From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] category sci-geosciences redundant ?
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:08:17
Message-Id: 20050317230713.GE16990@kaf.zko.hp.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] category sci-geosciences redundant ? by Mike Frysinger
1 Vapier wrote:[Thu Mar 17 2005, 12:33:59AM EST]
2 > On Thursday 17 March 2005 12:18 am, Olivier Cr?te wrote:
3 > > Don't we already have rules that forbid two packages having the same
4 > > name ?
5 >
6 > if we do it's news to me
7
8 There was once such a rule, in the drobbins days, along with the rule
9 stating that capital letters weren't allowed in package names. Both
10 rules were mostly ignored, for mostly good reasons, so they faded into
11 non-existence.
12
13 Regards,
14 Aron
15
16 --
17 Aron Griffis
18 Gentoo Linux Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] category sci-geosciences redundant ? Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>