On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 01:13:48PM +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > On a minor note, I'd also like to see bug reporters use canonical > > package names in bug descriptions, including the category (and > > preferably the specific version, not some >=foo-3*!!!one, not to > > mention specifying no version at all). Including the category means > > arch devs won't need to guess/discover which of a few hundred categories > > a package is meant to reside in. > > First off, I second that. Second, here's how you still get where you > want without looking up the category: > > $ cd gentoo-x86/*/foo
This works better: $ cd gentoo-x86/*/foo/ This avoids the case where a file by the same name exists (for example, in licenses/). > This of course doesn't work if there are multiple packages with the same > name in different categories, but if a package maintainer doesn't > specify the category in such a case, he should be hit anyway ;P -- [email protected] mailing list
