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Unless I'm mistaken, the only purpose of categories is to make it easier to |
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find ebuilds either with tab completion or a GUI tree. |
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On Saturday 06 September 2003 03:35 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 15:38, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> > Ok, then maybe I should rephrase that... Ebuilds should not have the same |
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> > name. IIRC, it is against policy and when they do have the same name it |
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> > is a bug which should be fixed. |
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> Having categories and having identical ones in different categories, |
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> does sort of invalidate the extreme "bug" tag you put on it. Anyhow, |
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> last time I checked, there was no policy like this ? As far as I am |
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> concerned, as long as we have categories, renaming a package because |
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> of an already existing one in a different category is just silly, and |
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> will cause more confusion. |
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> > On Saturday 06 September 2003 07:47 am, George Shapovalov wrote: |
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> > > On Friday 05 September 2003 21:18, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> > > > Obviously, ebuilds can't have the same name... For BitTorrent, the |
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> > > > ebuild |
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> > > But they do. We already have few ebuilds with identical names in the |
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> > > tree (in different categories of course). I don't remember specifics, |
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> > > just that this was coming up in prior similar discussions and I think |
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> > > there are on an order of 10 of them.. Just pointing out "the fact of |
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> > > life" that we would have to be careful about when having to deal with |
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> > > actual reorganization. IIRC, some of them were emacs modules having the |
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> > > same name as the language or some such, for which they provided special |
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> > > emacs mode. |
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> > > And there were angry users when I had to rename ebuilds to avoid name |
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> > > clashes (f.e. balsa (the "oroginal" one, actually was created before |
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> > > the well known gnome app) => tbass). So this may not be as simple as it |
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> > > seems... |
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> > > George |
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> > Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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