Re: [gentoo-dev] Mozilla: Firebird-bin & Firebird-cvs

[Dave Nellans <dnellans@cs.utah.edu>]

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this is something we discussed about a month ago and never developed an
official policy for then did we? george can you comment on this? 
perhaps its time we do

dave

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 15:04, Matthew Kennedy wrote:
> Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org> writes:
> 
> > Policy is to avoid naming conflicts. :)
> >
> > There are indeed ebuilds that conflict. Those are bugs that there is 
> > currently no clean fix for. Committing _more_ conflicting ebuilds is 
> > definitely not okay.
> >
> 
> Jon (and others), 
> 
> I'm not so sure.  I have app-emacs and app-xemacs and there are
> *many* ebuilds which "conflict" in their naming, and this is
> intentional.
> 
> For example, the "ilisp" package appears in both app-emacs and
> app-xemacs.  So if I'm to avoid this naming "conflict" because
> somemone typing "emerge ilisp" might get "app-xemacs/ilisp" instead
> of "app-emacs/ilisp", then naturally I should prefix the ebuild names
> with "emacs" and "xemacs", right?  So I'd end up with
> 
>    emerge emacs-ilisp
> or
>    emerge xemacs-ilisp
> 
> But wait!  Thats what categories are for -- ie. defining some
> namespace. Thus there's no need, and this more or less backs up my
> argument that the category name + package name forms a "fully resolved
> and unique" symbol for emerge to act upon.
> 
> So the user should do:
> 
>    emerge app-emacs/ilisp
> or
>    emerge app-xemacs/ilisp
> 
> What of the case where the user is surprised by the "short form" case:
> 
>    emerge ilisp
> 
> ...well this is where emerge should abort and report back to the user
> something like this: "ERROR: Short form 'ilisp' matches
> app-emacs/ilisp and app-xemacs/ilisp -- please use a fully qualified
> name instead".  (Currently emerge emerges the first one it sees.)
> 
> I really think ambiguities should be resolved by using the category
> name -- otherwise I can't see why we sort packages into categories
> at all.
> 
> Matt   
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Dave Nellans
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dnellans@cs.utah.edu

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