On Wednesday 16 April 2003 04:43, George Shapovalov wrote:
> Ok, this is shaping up :).
>
> Dave: could you please submit a bug, with a short description of this
> discussion? Otherwise I am afraid this is going to be easily lost..

I would like to add that I believe the failure option is best. Further there 
is another problem with duplicate packages, that is duplicate distfile names. 
This will not work in the current portage. Maybe portage should use some 
automatic renaming feature in case of duplicates. Automatic prefixing of 
categoryname+packagename to the file should be doable. The only thing then is 
that the file unpacking code should first check for the prefixed filename. 
Using directories in distfiles (and maybe too in packages (where every file 
is in All)) could also solve possible conflicts.

Paul

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