XFCE package names in Gentoo

[purslow at sympatico.ca]

[ i have just had the following exchange with the Gentoo development list.
perhaps the XFCE gang -- at least any Gentoo users -- might like to offer
their own input & possibly consider referring to 'xfce4' simply as 'xfce' ]

----- Forwarded message from Brandon Hale <tseng at gentoo.org> -----

Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help at gentoo.org; run by ezmlm
List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev at gentoo.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev-help at gentoo.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-unsubscribe at gentoo.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-subscribe at gentoo.org>
List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org>
X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev at gentoo.org
Delivered-To: mailing list gentoo-dev at lists.gentoo.org
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:33:22 -0500
From: Brandon Hale <tseng at gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo Devt <gentoo-dev at lists.gentoo.org>
Mail-Followup-To: Gentoo Devt <gentoo-dev at lists.gentoo.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] XFCE package names

On (01/18/04 15:17), purslow at sympatico.ca wrote:
> XFCE 4 has been out for  nrly 6 mth  & is proving very satisfactory.
> XFCE 3 is no longer being developed or AFAIK supported.
> however on Gentoo, 'emerge xfce' still gives you XFCE 3.18.3 ,
> while you have to say 'emerge xfce4' to get XFCE 4.0.1 (4.0.3 is latest).
> 
> can those responsible please revise the package names (surely no effort) ?

If you've ever used cvs, which we do for our portage tree, you will know
that moving packages is far more painful than the "no effort" you suppose.
Due to the number of packages that make up XFCE,
suggesting such a large move would not be taken lightly.

This has come up before, at which time the answer was this:
xfce.org refers to their newest release as "xfce4" vs xfce.

I can see logic in both sides of this argument, but hopefully we won't
go back and forth ad naseum on a non-issue. I will consider this further,
and speak w/ the package's maintainer on the issue when he returns.

> 'xfce' sb XFCE 4.0.n , while 'xfce3' shd get the obsolete XFCE 3.18.3 .
Ideally, both packages would share the same name.
Someone wanting xfce 3.x would have to mask 4.x in /etc/portage/package.mask

Regards, --tseng

--
gentoo-dev at gentoo.org mailing list

----- End forwarded message -----

-- 
========================,,============================================
SUPPORT     ___________//___,  Philip Webb : purslow at chass.utoronto.ca
ELECTRIC   /] [] [] [] [] []|  Centre for Urban & Community Studies
TRANSIT    `-O----------O---'  University of Toronto