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Obviously, ebuilds can't have the same name... For BitTorrent, the ebuild |
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'bittorrent' is used for the official client, 'bittorrent-mxs' for mxs's |
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version and 'bittorrent-theshadow' for TheSHAD0W's version. |
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On Saturday 06 September 2003 03:27 am, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 02:03:41AM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> > This would complicate tab completion if not done correctly. |
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> > Perhaps a /usr/portage/ebuilds/ directory containing everything, and then |
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> > symlinks in category directories... but as someone else pointed out, CVS |
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> > lacks symlink support... Can anyone come up with a similar idea which |
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> > doesn't make tab-completion too difficult (bash-completion could be used |
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> > in some, but not all cases)? |
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> Another major problem is identically named programs. I can think of one |
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> in particular, not in the tree at the moment, but both would belong in |
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> net-misc (two authors independantly wrote programs to do basically the |
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> same thing, with slightly different extra features, and then named them |
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> the same thing). |
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> Even if they aren't in the same category, support for identically named |
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> programs is important. |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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