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

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

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Ok, then maybe I should rephrase that... Ebuilds should not have the same 
name. IIRC, it is against policy and when they do have the same name it is a 
bug which should be fixed.

On Saturday 06 September 2003 07:47 am, George Shapovalov wrote:
> On Friday 05 September 2003 21:18, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > Obviously, ebuilds can't have the same name... For BitTorrent, the ebuild
>
> But they do. We already have few ebuilds with identical names in the tree
> (in different categories of course). I don't remember specifics, just that
> this was coming up in prior similar discussions and I think there are on an
> order of 10 of them.. Just pointing out "the fact of life" that we would
> have to be careful about when having to deal with actual reorganization.
> IIRC, some of them were emacs modules having the same name as the language
> or some such, for which they provided special emacs mode.
> And there were angry users when I had to rename ebuilds to avoid name
> clashes (f.e. balsa (the "oroginal" one, actually was created before the
> well known gnome app) => tbass). So this may not be as simple as it
> seems...
>
> George
>
>
>
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