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On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:06, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> Policy is to avoid naming conflicts by using different names whenever |
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> possible. |
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Um, I don't think we have any policy on this matter. I was bringing this issue |
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about a month ago and found that some devs believe we cannot have duplicate |
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names (or avoid them whereever possible) others think oterwise... |
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There was a thread initiated by not very happy user whose ebuild was renamed |
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with the explanation that portage cannot reliably deal with this situation, |
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however later on he found two identically named packages. |
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The thread was on -dev and I think general consesus was that it would 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 fine |
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already). I think there is even a bug about this.. |
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I remember doing a search for duplicates and finding there were multiple. |
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Therefore it is not just a simple issue of enforcinf different names on all |
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new packages.. Unfortunately that conversation did not finish up at that |
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time, however this might have made it into udder project.. Nonetheless IMHO |
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it would be nice to settle on certain policy so that we can at least avoid |
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increasing inconsistency.. |
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George |
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