38649 – duplicate package name "ace" (dev-libs/ace and games-board/ace)

Bug 38649 - duplicate package name "ace" (dev-libs/ace and games-board/ace)

Summary: duplicate package name "ace" (dev-libs/ace and games-board/ace)

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2004-01-18 14:22 UTC by Rene Androsch
Modified:	2004-01-18 17:14 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Rene Androsch 2004-01-18 14:22:08 UTC

duplicate package names:

    dev-libs/ace
    games-board/ace

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -pv ace
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies

!!! The short ebuild name "ace" is ambiguous.  Please specify
!!! one of the following fully-qualified ebuild names instead:

    dev-libs/ace
    games-board/ace

Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-18 17:14:00 UTC

That's not a bug.  There are lots of packages with the same name, that's why
you should always use the complete name of category/package when specifying
what you want.  Portage even tells you what to do.