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From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
To: George Shapovalov <george@g.o>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Breaking up the beast known as app-games
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 13:38:35
Message-Id: 200309061338.31818.luke-jr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Breaking up the beast known as app-games by George Shapovalov
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4 Ok, then maybe I should rephrase that... Ebuilds should not have the same
5 name. IIRC, it is against policy and when they do have the same name it is a
6 bug which should be fixed.
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8 On Saturday 06 September 2003 07:47 am, George Shapovalov wrote:
9 > On Friday 05 September 2003 21:18, Luke-Jr wrote:
10 > > Obviously, ebuilds can't have the same name... For BitTorrent, the ebuild
11 >
12 > But they do. We already have few ebuilds with identical names in the tree
13 > (in different categories of course). I don't remember specifics, just that
14 > this was coming up in prior similar discussions and I think there are on an
15 > order of 10 of them.. Just pointing out "the fact of life" that we would
16 > have to be careful about when having to deal with actual reorganization.
17 > IIRC, some of them were emacs modules having the same name as the language
18 > or some such, for which they provided special emacs mode.
19 > And there were angry users when I had to rename ebuilds to avoid name
20 > clashes (f.e. balsa (the "oroginal" one, actually was created before the
21 > well known gnome app) => tbass). So this may not be as simple as it
22 > seems...
23 >
24 > George
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