Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild naming policy

[Jeff Rose <rosejn@Colorado.EDU>]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Peter Ruskin wrote:

> On Wednesday 16 Apr 2003 01:58, Dave Nellans wrote:
> > The question then remains is how to determine which package is the
> > "default" to be installed if you use only the ebuild name.  I haven't
> > poked in the code to see how portage is doing it now, but can see three
> > possible options.  One being alphabetical by category, two being first
> > come first serve, or three allowing the "most commonly installed" of
> > the options defined by whomever is maintaining the package(s).  The
> > only downside is that portage/ebuilds will need yet another thing added
> > to it similar to SLOTS to help support this =/
>
> Or perhaps better, emerge should fail and print a message like:
> "There is more than one package with that name.  Please use
> 'emerge <category>/<package>.ebuild' for the required package.'"
>
> Peter

This defenitely makes the most sense.  The user will know which app they
want to emerge so portage should ask them rather than just installing some
default app that they really don't want on their machine.  Problem
solved...

-Jeff



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