Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:04:49 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Duplicate ports with the same name, shou,d thy be banned/renamed? Message-ID: <20100423180449.GA16091@orion.hsd1.pa.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4BD1DD94.9070704@rawbw.com> References: <4BD1DD94.9070704@rawbw.com>
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Hi, Yuri wrote: > I see there are two ports: > /usr/ports/audio/mpc > /usr/ports/math/mpc > > When I run 'pkg_add -r mpc' the first one gets installed, there is 'All' > directory under packages, here all of them from all subdirectories are > dropped. > > Shouldn't duplication be banned? > This is where the LATEST_LINK entry in the port Makefile comes in. If you want to pkg_add math/mpc, use: pkg_add -r math_mpc Regards, -- Glen Barber
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