Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> I just bumped into something I feel is a Portage and PMS bug. Since I
> believe in concrete use cases, I'll just go with that.
>
> Currently in the tree we have sys-fs/ntfs3g. However the proper upstream
> name and name referenced in every single doc in the world is "ntfs-3g".
> I tried to rename the package however, Portage does not let me since it
> is invalid naming. marienz and genone informed me it's invalid with PMS
> as well.
>
> The version I was trying to add is ntfs-3g-1.516. Logically Portage and
> PMS should only consider any data after the LAST - as the version
> information. Now in the cpv scheme of things, it's not undeterministic
> because the following two entries would be the only valid entries:
>
> sys-fs/ntfs-3g
> =sys-fs/ntfs-3g-1.516
>
> Either way, that's my beef.
>   
It seems my issue has been brought up in bug #174536 [1]. Sorry for the
noise.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174536
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