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On (01/18/04 15:17), purslow@×××××××××.ca wrote: |
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> XFCE 4 has been out for nrly 6 mth & is proving very satisfactory. |
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> XFCE 3 is no longer being developed or AFAIK supported. |
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> however on Gentoo, 'emerge xfce' still gives you XFCE 3.18.3 , |
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> 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 |
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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. |
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This has come up before, at which time the answer was this: |
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xfce.org refers to their newest release as "xfce4" vs xfce. |
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I can see logic in both sides of this argument, but hopefully we won't go |
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back and forth ad naseum on a non-issue. I will consider this further, |
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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 |
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would have to mask 4.x in /etc/portage/package.mask |
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Regards, |
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--tseng |
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