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Created attachment 15825 [details] the ebuild with creating of sym. link
Created attachment 15826 [details] the ebuild with creating of sym. link
How would that work if I have xchat-1 and xchat-2 installed ?
you would emerge mozilla 1.2 and mozilla 0.97 in the same machine? so why should you emerge xchat-1 and xchat-2 in the same machine?
This at a certain point was the behaviour, but i never approved that change. It's a bad habit having 2 versions occupy the same files, portage behaviour around this is not documented so cant be guaranteed to be consistent. At this time i don't feel it would be wise to add a symlink. There is another bug on this, with the reasoning behind it. Please do search before you submit.
So at least add something in the end of emerge that says: "Although you used emerge xchat (and NOT emerge xchat-2), the executable name is xchat-2.". I don't see how would the common user is supposed to guess that. I was wandering around till I was told I am looking on the wrong place. This could be differently resolved if the package name was xchat-2, and then emerge xchat would NOT work, and I would have needed to use emerge -S xchat to find out that it's xchat-2. I really think that if xchat-2 is what you get when you "emerge xchat", "xchat" should run the program. But that's just me...
*** Bug 26502 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
