Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages with same name was -> Conversion of Emacs virtual packages

[Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>]

Quoting Mike Kelly <pioto@gentoo.org>:

> On Thu, 17 May 2007 00:37:23 +0200
> Thilo Bangert <bangert@gentoo.org> wrote:
  ...

>> > IMHO app-vim/ant should really be app-vim/vim-ant or something other
>> > than just ant.
>>
>> or app-vim/sudo-syntax and app-vim/ant-syntax as there already are a
>> number of ebuilds following that scheme...
>
> Well, sudo and ant aren't syntax plugins, so that wouldn't make any
> sense. Also, we're keeping the same names that the upstream script
> writers use, just as we do everywhere else in Gentoo. The whole point
> of having category names is so that we can have two packages w/ the
> same name and not have issues.

All this is so familiar... where have I heard that before?

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/27770/focus=27838

The thread is pretty long, but some of the issues of the current  
thread have been covered in length there.

-- 
Georgi

----------------------------------------------------------------
This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

--
gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list