a little confuse with case-sensitive name ports and multiple ports with some name

[Chris Rees]

2009/4/17 Oleg Ginzburg <oleg.ginzburg at nevosoft.ru>:
> And i forget to say for one else problem with {archivers,mis}/deco:
> both of them produced one binary file in /usr/local/bin/deco.
>
> cd /usr/ports/archivers/deco
> make install
> ...
> (i have deco archivers)
> pkg_add -r deco
>
> (deco/NC-clone replace /usr/local/bin/deco)
>
>  pkg_which /usr/local/bin/deco
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 718 packages found
> (-1 +1) (...). done]
> deco-3.9_4 deco-1.6
>
> pkg_delete -f deco-3.9\*
>
> ..
>

OK, that's seriously annoying. That can't possibly be by design....

By the way, please don't top-post
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Chris


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