Re: [gentoo-dev] category sci-geosciences redundant ?

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 16/03/2005-21:03:29(-0800): Robin H. Johnson types
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:29:23PM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> > Which is one of the reasons why I am behind the idea of *unique* package
> > names, even if that involves some redundand naming. It's for the greater
> > good.  The package name being tied to its category is evil and it also
> > means that we'll never see multiple categories per package, or more
> > descriptive category names, or any other of these goodies. Ever.
> And what about packages that have the same name upstream, and yet do different
> things? It's a nice concept, but not practical.
>
> find $(<profiles/categories) -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 ! -name CVS -printf '%h %f\n' | sort  -k2  | uniq -f1 -dD
> Shows we have 145 packages with non-unique names.
>
> We've even got a few cases where there are 3 applications with the same name
> upstream:
> app-arch/par
> app-text/par
> dev-util/par
> (2 other examples of the same thing as well).

I've been suggesting renaming packages appropriately, but the idea's
been shot down with 'We use upstream names' a few times already.

Still, I cannot restrain myself from hacking down your example from
above. It's just too good an oportunity to miss. :)


* app-arch/par
src_install() {
	dobin par || die
	dodoc AUTHORS NEWS README rs.doc
}

* app-text/par
src_install() {
	newbin par par-format || die
	doman par.1
	dodoc releasenotes par.doc
}

* dev-util/par
src_install () {
	dobin par
	dolib *.a *.so

	mv par.man par.1
	doman par.1
}

Let's start with app-text/par. 

- The binary is renamed to par-format to avoid a clash with the one from
  app-arch/par (If I'm wrong, correct me, this is just an assumption).
- The man page is left as par, so that if a user decides to look-up the
  usage of par-format, they have to type man par (overlooking I guess).
- To correct the above, the man page would also need to be renamed for
  consistency with the name of the binary.
- We would end up with a package that installs /usr/bin/par-format and a
  par-format.1 man page. What would be the big deal with renaming the
  package itself, then?

- app-arch/par and dev-util/par both install /usr/bin/par
- app-text/par and dev-util/par both install /usr..../man.1.gz

Fix these collisions, and I'll tell you how to fix the problem with
their names.

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