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| The thread was on -dev and I think general consesus was that it would |
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be nice |
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| to allow duplicate names, we only need to make portage stop and ask for |
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| clarification if duplicates are found during emerge (emerge search is |
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fine |
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| already). I think there is even a bug about this.. |
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| Nonetheless IMHO |
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| it would be nice to settle on certain policy so that we can at least |
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avoid |
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| increasing inconsistency.. |
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| George |
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Oops, Sorry George, this lists operates differently than my LUG's |
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mailing list, and I'm sure that's not the last time I'll make that |
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mistake. :) Here's what I had to say: |
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I'm an end user, but I subscribe to gentoo-dev to stay current on the |
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direction of Gentoo, and give my input when I feel it could be helpful. |
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I think the package names should be intuitive, so if i know a program is |
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named "foo" i can "emerge foo" and install that package. Of course there |
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is always the possiblity that there will be "app-editors/foo" and |
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"net-www"/foo, but as an end user I might not be aware of one or the |
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other of these packages. The best recourse, from my perspective, would a |
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message from portage that looks like the same output from "emerge -s |
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foo" so if I typed: |
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#emerge foo |
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I would get: |
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Portage has returned more than one app named foo, which one would you |
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like to install?[1,2] |
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1 app-editors/foo |
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~ version: 0.0.1 |
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~ homepage: foo.com |
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~ Description: foo editor |
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2 net-www/foo |
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~ version 0.1.0 |
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~ homepage: foo.org |
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~ Description: a FooBar implementation |
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: |
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Of course this is easy for me to say because I doubt I'll be the one |
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coding it, and this feature would probably slow down portage a little |
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for any emerge, because it would have to check for duplicates first for |
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all emerges. I'll shut up now, but I couldn't resist giving my 2 cents. |
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