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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:08:55
Message-Id: 20161017180841.74392fb9.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds by "William L. Thomson Jr."
1 On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:48:53 -0400
2 "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 4:18:51 AM EDT Kent Fredric wrote:
5 > > There's a lot of "but what if you care!??!" things, perhaps this may be
6 > > an important one to you, but some people care a lot about LICENSE and
7 > > some people just don't.
8 >
9 > Yes, and some care about what repo it comes from. Which is why portage now
10 > shows you what repo it comes from as part of merge output. This is really no
11 > different.
12
13 No.
14
15 Portage shows the repo it comes from because it is necessary for
16 the package specification to be unique, i.e. two repositories can
17 provide the same version of the same package.
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny
22 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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