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On 6/20/20 11:56 AM, Ralph Seichter wrote: |
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> * Daniel Frey: |
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>> I went to emerge mythtv (I think) and now it says it's an ambiguous |
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>> requests with *both* the group and user of the same name. |
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> You need to emerge "media-tv/mythtv", not just "mythtv". Nothing |
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> ambiguous about it. |
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> Further reading: https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0081.html |
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> -Ralph |
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You just pointed out the ambiguity. |
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Emerging a package solely by its name worked 99.9% of the time before |
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this change. |
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Now new users get the fun of "Gee, which one is the one I actually |
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want?" MythTV is a fairly clear one to figure out, but other packages |
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aren't. |
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I understand the dependencies problem that they were trying to solve, |
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but I don't think the way it was implemented is a great one. |
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Dan |
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