Gentoo together with Red Hat are the only ones using that weird name "rb_libtorrent". The name of the installed library is "libtorrent-rasterbar". In the whole codebase there is no string "rb_libtorrent". That made up name makes it only harder to find the package when looking for the library. Here are the affected packages: ``` app-leechcraft/lc-bittorrent media-video/miro net-libs/rb_libtorrent net-misc/fatrat net-p2p/deluge net-p2p/qbittorrent net-p2p/tribler ```
OK but this is of low priority and it does not cause any actual problem.
But yes, it does. People are wasting time when looking for it. That is a problem. If you name some package by it's base64 encoded name and then use that name in all ebuilds depending on it, everything will be working nicely, but it will be extremely user-unfriendly. When I type "gentoo libtorrent-rasterbar" into Google, the first result is rakshasa's libtorrent library, which means that even Google has no clue that "rb_libtorrent" means "libtorrent-rasterbar" and Google is pretty good in guessing what is hidden behind the user's input. Red Hat can afford to be user-unfriendly in cases such as this, because it's users are usually paid for using it and thus deal with it better.
Thanks, this was done in git commit 08182c35282ee43933a39462ef9fb7092b368a90
