From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11026 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Sep 2003 00:06:24 -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 27936 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2003 00:06:24 -0000 From: Luke-Jr Organization: Gentoo Linux To: azarah@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 00:06:12 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 Cc: George Shapovalov , Gentoo-Dev References: <200309041251.49718.vapier@gentoo.org> <200309061338.31818.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <1062862541.11604.9.camel@nosferatu.lan> In-Reply-To: <1062862541.11604.9.camel@nosferatu.lan> 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: <200309070006.21510.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Breaking up the beast known as app-games X-Archives-Salt: db536918-09e1-43ce-b8bb-61a887869416 X-Archives-Hash: b50f375a2e2cbd42332cf2fd2a27bbfa =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Unless I'm mistaken, the only purpose of categories is to make it easier to= =20 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: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Ok, then maybe I should rephrase that... Ebuilds should not have the sa= me > > 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 t= he > > > same name as the language or some such, for which they provided speci= al > > > 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) =3D> tbass). So this may not be as simple a= s it > > > seems... > > > > > > George > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > - -- > > Luke-Jr > > Developer, Gentoo Linux > > http://www.gentoo.org/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE/WeNPZl/BHdU+lYMRAniaAKCZbsDxCTMJw2sNP4rkisy9dBcGjACghNsc > > XvE6ts4smv9dnXYYTqrj/og=3D > > =3DKpkj > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > -- > > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list =2D --=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/WnZ4Zl/BHdU+lYMRAsIfAJ9n1q7mtvz1Wg3BoRNB3pVdizIR4QCfTS4H sHZl9oHKf07KCnwtCSJ7IOs=3D =3Dbz3c =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list