From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11692 invoked by uid 1002); 6 Sep 2003 04:18:22 -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 5803 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2003 04:18:21 -0000 From: Luke-Jr Organization: Gentoo Linux To: "Robin H. Johnson" Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 04:18:12 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 Cc: Thomas de Grenier de Latour , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200309041251.49718.vapier@gentoo.org> <200309060203.52115.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <20030906032707.GA1159@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> In-Reply-To: <20030906032707.GA1159@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> GPG-Public-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="shift_jis" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309060418.19818.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Breaking up the beast known as app-games X-Archives-Salt: 9cbd5ba1-5baf-43a5-a330-de43ca7b4038 X-Archives-Hash: 877575939cffaae3edd85fa3afab9092 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Obviously, ebuilds can't have the same name... For BitTorrent, the ebuild=20 'bittorrent' is used for the official client, 'bittorrent-mxs' for mxs's=20 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 th= en > > 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. =2D --=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/WWAHZl/BHdU+lYMRAviqAJ0YMHtiHY8Bvi7CQy5zZ6Ow2yiMpgCdHz2x +aNmVbeWOI7THkNqgQxs5vU=3D =3D2yya =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list