[Bug 262883] The pkg package name for x11-wm/xfce4 should be changed from xfce to xfce4

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262883

Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org> ---
Hi,

Thanks for reporting this.

While I do not dismiss your worry right away, things don't look so clear cut to
me as you imply.

In fact I don't feel like taking a decision by myself, I'd like to get feedback
from other committers and contributors before any action is taken on this.

To give a timeframe, the naming of this metaport has been like this for a long
time, this is the commit which set it to "xfce":

https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=73097a726707ebe313ebbe450c3731df14ad431c

(referencing on the current git repo, at the time we were still using CVS)


An important consideration to make is that changing the pkgname of a port is
quite invasive, all users would have to tell pkg to move to the new one. Also
renaming the port directory has consequences, for example all users using lists
of origins (for example for poudriere, but also scripts and configuration
management systems can digest those) would requires users to change their
configurations.

So any of these changes has to stand a POLA challenge, that means: is the
"astonishment" imposed on users who would have to perform special steps to keep
up with the change acceptable when weighted against its advantages?

The advantage you claim is conformance. Which may not be worth reverting a 19
years old change and forcing all users of xfce to reconfigure their systems.

Also there is no real rule for package names to equal the port directory name,
in fact most flavored ports for different python, perl and php versions end up
with a package name that is not aligned with their directory name in the ports
tree. I've not looked up for more examples.

My impression is that a more correct fix would be to change the directory name
from x11-wm/xfce4 to x11-wm/xfce, since it is quit improbable we will never
have more than one major xfce version in the tree anyway, and the actual name
ISS xfce.

But Personally I'm open to any options, as long as it creates as little
astonishment/confusion/need for manual intervention for users and committers as
possible AND some consensus is reached on it.

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