[kde-freebsd] Renaming KDE4 ports

Max Brazhnikov makc at issp.ac.ru
Sun Sep 5 19:49:52 CEST 2010


On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 17:17:48 +0200, David Naylor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With the introduction of KDE4 many ports were duplicated and ended up
> getting -kde4 suffixes.  Is there any "official" policy in renaming ports
> (dropping the suffix)?

I'd leave -kde4 suffix in directory name, but it surely can be removed from 
package name. Btw, most of kde4 ports do not have suffix in pkgname, even when 
corresponding kde3 port is still there (e.g. k3b ports).

> The example I am interest in is devel/kdesvn-kde4.  Originally there was
> devel/kdesvn however that port has been moved.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David



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