From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19976 invoked by uid 1002); 6 Sep 2003 15:32:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 13881 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2003 15:32:24 -0000 From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@gentoo.org To: Luke-Jr Cc: George Shapovalov , Gentoo-Dev In-Reply-To: <200309061338.31818.luke-jr@gentoo.org> References: <200309041251.49718.vapier@gentoo.org> <200309060418.19818.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <200309060047.32776.george@gentoo.org> <200309061338.31818.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-JO1eF73D4ELV4jPsuXJ3" Message-Id: <1062862541.11604.9.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 17:35:42 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Breaking up the beast known as app-games X-Archives-Salt: cc11bab9-9ba6-4173-93f8-48476067dd50 X-Archives-Hash: 8c7d2c01dcfa6aa35cba6046919cf149 --=-JO1eF73D4ELV4jPsuXJ3 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 15:38, Luke-Jr wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >=20 > Ok, then maybe I should rephrase that... Ebuilds should not have the same= =20 > name. IIRC, it is against policy and when they do have the same name it i= s a=20 > bug which should be fixed. >=20 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 eb= uild > > > > But they do. We already have few ebuilds with identical names in the tr= ee > > (in different categories of course). I don't remember specifics, just t= hat > > this was coming up in prior similar discussions and I think there are o= n an > > order of 10 of them.. Just pointing out "the fact of life" that we woul= d > > 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 langu= age > > 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 th= e > > well known gnome app) =3D> tbass). So this may not be as simple as it > > seems... > > > > George > > > > > > > > -- > > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list >=20 > - --=20 > Luke-Jr > Developer, Gentoo Linux > http://www.gentoo.org/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) >=20 > iD8DBQE/WeNPZl/BHdU+lYMRAniaAKCZbsDxCTMJw2sNP4rkisy9dBcGjACghNsc > XvE6ts4smv9dnXYYTqrj/og=3D > =3DKpkj > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >=20 >=20 > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list --=20 Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --=-JO1eF73D4ELV4jPsuXJ3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/Wf7NqburzKaJYLYRAhqTAJ98sEdcm7zxqQlsOWRJNjSvyWzyBQCfdfbW uoOicxX9isLKlE5JGDt+DGA= =jByw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-JO1eF73D4ELV4jPsuXJ3--