From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@gentoo.org>
To: Barry Shaw <baz@scms.waikato.ac.nz>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Alternative names for binaries in app-text/cook and dev-util/cook
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:21:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040517092128.GF7079@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40A45028.5040700@scms.waikato.ac.nz>
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On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 04:50:48PM +1200, Barry Shaw wrote:
> I thought that all of the ebuilds in portage were supposed to have
> unique package names. I seem to recall reading this somewhere in the
> gentoo docs but I have been unable to find it again.
This is not correct. Identical package names are okay. Identical installed
files are not.
The name clashes that happen in /usr/portage/packages/All are a side effect
of the current implementation of the binary package system, and is in, imho,
very unfortunate.
However, two identically named packages in different categories are seldom at
the same version, so there shouldn't be any overwriting of tbz2s.
Kind regards,
Karl T
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-14 2:11 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Alternative names for binaries in app-text/cook and dev-util/cook Karl Trygve Kalleberg
2004-05-14 4:50 ` Barry Shaw
2004-05-14 14:40 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-05-17 9:21 ` Karl Trygve Kalleberg [this message]
2004-05-17 21:40 ` Barry Shaw
2004-05-18 4:26 ` Jason Stubbs
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