* Daniel Frey:
> You just pointed out the ambiguity.
I did no such thing, and there is no ambiguity. There is only the
failure to specify a package's identifier ("atom").
> Emerging a package solely by its name worked 99.9% of the time before
> this change.
Perhaps for the packages you used; I have obviously not verified
that. Even if it was the case, it was not guaranteed to work that
way. Package atoms are, and have been, of the form CATEGORY/NAME, not
just NAME. Emerge also expects atoms, not names (as do package.mask,
package.use, etc.).
> Now new users get the fun of "Gee, which one is the one I actually
> want?" MythTV is a fairly clear one to figure out, but other packages
> aren't.
"New users" can rely on Gentoo utilities like "eix", "emerge --search"
or "equery". There's also https://packages.gentoo.org . Thus, I see no
problem.
-Ralph
