Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Breaking up the beast known as app-games

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org>]

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Obviously, ebuilds can't have the same name... For BitTorrent, the ebuild 
'bittorrent' is used for the official client, 'bittorrent-mxs' for mxs's 
version and 'bittorrent-theshadow' for TheSHAD0W's version.

On Saturday 06 September 2003 03:27 am, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 02:03:41AM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > This would complicate tab completion if not done correctly.
> > Perhaps a /usr/portage/ebuilds/ directory containing everything, and then
> > symlinks in category directories... but as someone else pointed out, CVS
> > lacks symlink support... Can anyone come up with a similar idea which
> > doesn't make tab-completion too difficult (bash-completion could be used
> > in some, but not all cases)?
>
> Another major problem is identically named programs. I can think of one
> in particular, not in the tree at the moment, but both would belong in
> net-misc (two authors independantly wrote programs to do basically the
> same thing, with slightly different extra features, and then named them
> the same thing).
>
> Even if they aren't in the same category, support for identically named
> programs is important.

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Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
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