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
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