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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