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From: Jason Wever <weeve@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] category sci-geosciences redundant ?
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:22:20
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.62.0503171321200.12409@stargazer.weeve.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] category sci-geosciences redundant ? by Lance Albertson
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4 On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Lance Albertson wrote:
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6 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
7 >> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:18:39 -0500 Olivier Crête <tester@g.o>
8 >> wrote:
9 >> | Don't we already have rules that forbid two packages having the same
10 >> | name ?
11 >>
12 >> Uh, no. See, we have categories to avoid this problem. Upstream naming
13 >> takes priority.
14 >
15 > If thats the case, why is Firefox called mozilla-firefox ?
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17 Probably because the application calls itself Mozilla Firefox (see title
18 bar and Help > About Mozilla Firefox in the menu) :)
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20 Cheers,
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22 Jason Wever
23 Gentoo/Sparc Co-Team Lead
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Re: [gentoo-dev] category sci-geosciences redundant ? Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>