Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild naming policy

[Peter Ruskin <aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com>]

On Wednesday 16 Apr 2003 01:58, Dave Nellans wrote:
> The question then remains is how to determine which package is the
> "default" to be installed if you use only the ebuild name.  I haven't
> poked in the code to see how portage is doing it now, but can see three
> possible options.  One being alphabetical by category, two being first
> come first serve, or three allowing the "most commonly installed" of
> the options defined by whomever is maintaining the package(s).  The
> only downside is that portage/ebuilds will need yet another thing added
> to it similar to SLOTS to help support this =/

Or perhaps better, emerge should fail and print a message like:
"There is more than one package with that name.  Please use
'emerge <category>/<package>.ebuild' for the required package.'"

Peter
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