On Feb 25, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:


I didn't know they are using such a flat namespace.

They're not -- When there are distfile collisions (and there are), they use DIST_SUBDIR to partition a particular port's distfiles. MacPorts by default simply places all distfiles in a port-specific subdirectory, since only port names are required to not conflict.

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