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

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

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Unless I'm mistaken, the only purpose of categories is to make it easier to 
find ebuilds either with tab completion or a GUI tree.

On Saturday 06 September 2003 03:35 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 15:38, Luke-Jr wrote:
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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.
>
> Having categories and having identical ones in different categories,
> does sort of invalidate the extreme "bug" tag you put on it.  Anyhow,
> last time I checked, there was no policy like this ?  As far as I am
> concerned, as long as we have categories, renaming a package because
> of an already existing one in a different category is just silly, and
> will cause more confusion.
>
> > 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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> > Luke-Jr
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Luke-Jr
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