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On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:40:26 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net> wrote: |
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| maillog: 04/10/2004-00:16:10(-0700): George Shapovalov types |
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| > However that may not be optimal as this will disallow duplicate |
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| > package names (which we *have* irrespectively of whether this is |
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| > good or bad). |
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| Isn't it about time to do something about these duplicate package |
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| names? Why not get rid of them, and then think of reorganizing the |
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| tree. |
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Great idea! I propose we rename every single package so that it is |
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prefixed by the category. So, instead of, say, dev-lang/python, we'd |
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have dev-lang/dev-lang-python. That way we wouldn't get any duplicates! |
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(Since at least one person is going to miss the sarcasm, a large part of |
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why we have categories is so that duplicate names isn't a problem. Since |
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portage now *tells* you when you need to be more specific, duplicates |
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really aren't a problem. Sticking prefixies on the front of package |
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names is just plain stupid.) |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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