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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:18:39 -0500 Olivier Crête <tester@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | Don't we already have rules that forbid two packages having the same |
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> | name ? |
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> Uh, no. See, we have categories to avoid this problem. Upstream naming |
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> takes priority. |
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If thats the case, why is Firefox called mozilla-firefox ? I think upstream |
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naming is important, but it shouldn't be the #1 reason why you can't name it |
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something else to avoid conflict. Granted yes, thats why we have categories, but |
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having to add app-admin/sudo is a PITA to do every time. |
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