From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13206 invoked by uid 1002); 30 May 2003 07:15:13 -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 6627 invoked from network); 30 May 2003 07:15:13 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:15:10 +0900 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030530071510.GA20356%chutz@gg3.net> References: <1053306873.1543.8.camel@wolf.codewordt.co.uk> <20030528090637.GB13935%chutz@gg3.net> <20030528140638.GA12271@cerberus.oppresses.us> <200305281113.59132.george@gentoo.org> <20030528190854.GA16794@cerberus.oppresses.us> <87vfvuvl3x.fsf@killr.ath.cx> <20030529032215.GA13180@time> <87wug8q5k7.fsf@killr.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wug8q5k7.fsf@killr.ath.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i-ja.1 From: Georgi Georgiev Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.74 (Citation) X-Primary-Address: chutz@gg3.net Reply-To: Georgi Georgiev Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Mozilla: Firebird-bin & Firebird-cvs X-Archives-Salt: da3fc328-21c2-46d0-9dc8-8f53867ffb6e X-Archives-Hash: 94af6d36db0a0c3be32ba20ec929c5b1 On 30/05/2003 at 02:03:52(-0500), Matthew Kennedy used 2.2Kbytes just to say: > 2. what to do when the user does try to emerge an ambiguously named > short-form package name. > > In the second case you could have: > > 1. emerge the first foo portage finds (undesirable, but what happens > currently) > > 2. prompt interactively (this would be the first time portage > prompts for user interaction afaik) > > 3. fail with an error message indication a long-form etc. must be > given to resolve one or more packages. > > I don't really care either way between 2 and 3. Shouldn't we define what "ambiguous" is? After all let's not forget that the worst case is: emerge rsync vs. emerge net-misc/rsync Currently, only option 1 works with "emerge rsync". Maybe a warning should be given every time a user tries to "emerge rsync" so that they get used to the alias sync. -- /^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\/^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\ / Georgi Georgiev (-< / Chance is perhaps the work of \ \ chutz@chubaka.net /\ .o)\ God when He did not want to / / +81(90)6266-1163 V_/_ |(/)/ sign. -- Anatole France \ \___________________________/\__________________________________/ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list