On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 15:38, Luke-Jr wrote:
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> Ok, then maybe I should rephrase that... Ebuilds should not have the same 
> name. IIRC, it is against policy and when they do have the same name it is a 
> bug which should be fixed.
> 

Having categories and having identical ones in different categories,
does sort of invalidate the extreme "bug" tag you put on it.  Anyhow,
last time I checked, there was no policy like this ?  As far as I am
concerned, as long as we have categories, renaming a package because
of an already existing one in a different category is just silly, and
will cause more confusion.

> On Saturday 06 September 2003 07:47 am, George Shapovalov wrote:
> > On Friday 05 September 2003 21:18, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > > Obviously, ebuilds can't have the same name... For BitTorrent, the ebuild
> >
> > But they do. We already have few ebuilds with identical names in the tree
> > (in different categories of course). I don't remember specifics, just that
> > this was coming up in prior similar discussions and I think there are on an
> > order of 10 of them.. Just pointing out "the fact of life" that we would
> > have to be careful about when having to deal with actual reorganization.
> > IIRC, some of them were emacs modules having the same name as the language
> > or some such, for which they provided special emacs mode.
> > And there were angry users when I had to rename ebuilds to avoid name
> > clashes (f.e. balsa (the "oroginal" one, actually was created before the
> > well known gnome app) => tbass). So this may not be as simple as it
> > seems...
> >
> > George
> >
> >
> >
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