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On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 04:50:48PM +1200, Barry Shaw wrote: |
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> I thought that all of the ebuilds in portage were supposed to have |
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> unique package names. I seem to recall reading this somewhere in the |
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> gentoo docs but I have been unable to find it again. |
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This is not correct. Identical package names are okay. Identical installed |
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files are not. |
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The name clashes that happen in /usr/portage/packages/All are a side effect |
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of the current implementation of the binary package system, and is in, imho, |
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very unfortunate. |
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However, two identically named packages in different categories are seldom at |
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the same version, so there shouldn't be any overwriting of tbz2s. |
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Kind regards, |
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Karl T |
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