XFCE package names in Gentoo

[Benjamin Rich]

As a gentoo user, I think this would be a great idea. XFCE is getting 
updated all the time, and I'd say few people on a bleeding-edge system 
like gentoo would want the older version sufficiently to have the 
package names separate. What happens when XFCE5 comes out? XFCE 3.18 is 
so primitive that I think backwards compatibility will start to become a 
non-issue - 'XFCE' should be the new name for the XFCE packages, and 
3.18 vs 4 should be in the version numbering, not the package name.

purslow at sympatico.ca wrote:

>[ 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' ]
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>On (01/18/04 15:17), purslow at sympatico.ca wrote:
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>>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).
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>>can those responsible please revise the package names (surely no effort) ?
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>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.
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>>'xfce' sb XFCE 4.0.n , while 'xfce3' shd get the obsolete XFCE 3.18.3 .
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>Ideally, both packages would share the same name.
>Someone wanting xfce 3.x would have to mask 4.x in /etc/portage/package.mask
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