| Summary: | creating symbolic link to xchat (from xchat-2) - truly minor :) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Itay Meir <itay.meir> |
| Component: | [OLD] Unspecified | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | trivial | CC: | djukic |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Attachments: |
the ebuild with creating of sym. link
the ebuild with creating of sym. link |
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Description
Itay Meir
2003-08-09 12:57:14 UTC
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... |
