Duplicate ports with the same name, shou,d thy be
banned/renamed?
Glen Barber
glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Fri Apr 23 18:08:27 UTC 2010
Hi,
Yuri wrote:
> I see there are two ports:
> /usr/ports/audio/mpc
> /usr/ports/math/mpc
>
> When I run 'pkg_add -r mpc' the first one gets installed, there is 'All'
> directory under packages, here all of them from all subdirectories are
> dropped.
>
> Shouldn't duplication be banned?
>
This is where the LATEST_LINK entry in the port Makefile comes in. If you
want to pkg_add math/mpc, use:
pkg_add -r math_mpc
Regards,
--
Glen Barber
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