On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 6:43 PM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > IMO it's a mistake to have one package called "svn" and another one > called "subversion". > Not really. ebuilds tend to be named the same as the project, so apache is called apache (project name), not httpd (binary name) The user package is named after what the system user will be, and SVN has run as "svn" since forever. Makes total sense, as long as you know exactly what how the software works and how it's deployed. Except when it kicks you in the teeth, like what happened here. OSes are like biology: apparently logical but actually messy -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
