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From: Troy Dack <troy@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Mozilla: Firebird-bin & Firebird-cvs
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 09:06:08
Message-Id: 1054112882.4022.4.camel@carbon.internal.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Mozilla: Firebird-bin & Firebird-cvs by Matthew Kennedy
1 On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:22, Matthew Kennedy wrote:
2 > Christian Axelsson <smiler@××××××××××.nu> writes:
3 >
4 > > On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 03:14, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
5 > >
6 > >> - conflict with firebird-db
7 > >
8 > > How about when typing 'emerge firebird' the user get a message
9 > > that looks something like:
10 > >
11 > > Multiple matches against "firebird". Possible options are:
12 > > dev-db/firebird
13 > > net-www/firebird
14 > >
15 > > I think this would be a nice solution to nameconflicts.
16
17 I think this would be a nice solution too.
18
19 > What naming conflict?
20 >
21 > There is
22 >
23 > emerge dev-db/firebird
24 > or
25 > emerge net-www/firebird
26 >
27 > This is not the first time two packages have a name conflict,
28 > requiring the category name to resolve.
29
30 The best/most often forgotten when trying to emerge a single
31 package/most annoying example of this is:
32
33 emerge rsync
34 or
35 emerge net-misc/rsync
36
37 and just for reference: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2365
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