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Subject: ebuild naming policy Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel Date: 2003-04-15 23:42:43 GMT (5 years, 19 weeks, 2 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes ago) do we have an established naming policy for ebuilds, and where can i find it? my gripe is that when i submitted the ebuild for a program named "balsa" (under app-sci/tbass) several devs told me i could not name it balsa because the gnome email client balsa already uses that name. i believed that is why apps were listed under app-sci, dev-db, etc... which is why this structure existed in the first place. i was told however this was not so and that this wasn't allowed. in the end the ebuild was called tbass which is very non-intuitive having a ebuild named something very dissimilar to its common name. all was fine untill i went to install ocaml and did emerge -s ocaml only to find there are TWO packages named ocaml that co-exist seemingly happily in different categories. this brings back my original question of if we have a specific naming policy or if some of the dev's are mistaken about things. if we don't have a naming policy yet, should we? it seems as if naming issues are becoming more significant now that the number of packages in portage continues to grow. any thoughts? dave |
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