XFCE package names in Gentoo

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 12:42, 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' ]

Although xfce3 is no longer supported, it still works and is probably
the best choice in older boxes (< 200 MHz). And when xfce5 comes out
there will probably have to be another change, so probably is better to
leaves things as is.

regards


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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] XFCE package names
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> 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
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