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From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] category sci-geosciences redundant ?
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:02:06
Message-Id: 20050318010202.GA2136288@lion.gg3.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] category sci-geosciences redundant ? by Jason Wever
1 maillog: 17/03/2005-13:22:15(-0700): Jason Wever types
2 > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Lance Albertson wrote:
3 >
4 > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > >> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:18:39 -0500 Olivier Cr�te <tester@g.o>
6 > >> wrote:
7 > >> | Don't we already have rules that forbid two packages having the same
8 > >> | name ?
9 > >>
10 > >> Uh, no. See, we have categories to avoid this problem. Upstream naming
11 > >> takes priority.
12 > >
13 > > If thats the case, why is Firefox called mozilla-firefox ?
14 >
15 > Probably because the application calls itself Mozilla Firefox (see title
16 > bar and Help > About Mozilla Firefox in the menu) :)
17
18 So how come I cannot install it by typing
19
20 emerge "Mozilla Firefox"
21
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