Bug 113836 – xchat should have binary without version

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Hanno Böck 2005-11-28 12:44:43 UTC]

current xchat still only installs xchat-2 binary. 
Either the binary should be renamed or it should install a symlink like the 
gimp ebuild does.

[Comment 1 Sven Wegener 2005-11-29 23:45:10 UTC]

It's postfixed with -2 to be able to concurrently install xchat-1 and xchat-2

[Comment 2 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2006-02-09 17:28:45 UTC]

Until such time where xchat-1.X isn't in the tree, we still need this versioning.  Unless you have an alternative.

[Comment 3 Hanno Böck 2006-02-09 23:06:22 UTC]

> Until such time where xchat-1.X isn't in the tree

I'd say just remove old cruft, but as I know this won't happen:

Cite myself above: "like the gimp ebuild"
From gimp ebuild:

inherit alternatives
[...]
alternatives_auto_makesym "/usr/bin/gimp" "/usr/bin/gimp-[0-9].[0-9]"

[Comment 4 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2006-02-19 19:03:32 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> It's postfixed with -2 to be able to concurrently install xchat-1 and xchat-2
> 

Is there any reason to keep -1 in the tree?

[Comment 5 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) 2006-09-05 14:20:18 UTC]

I'd say we can drop xchat-1...

Objections?

[Comment 6 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) 2006-10-19 16:33:37 UTC]

Now that xchat-1 is gone and we're able to rename it, should we provide a symlink?

[Comment 7 Hanno Böck 2006-12-25 07:02:59 UTC]

now fixed.