Re: multiple version of packages with the same PKGBASE

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

> IMHO there should be exactly one instance for describing a package.
> And this instance is PKGBASE, of course. PKGPATH is just a way to
> minimally _categorize_ them and organize sources in CVS, no more.

I also agree with that.

It is nice to know what you have installed by the package name.

For example, how do you know which is not official:

foo-1.1
foo-1.2

versus:

foo-1.1
foo-current-1.1