On 6/3/20 9:25 PM, LuKaRo wrote: > Hi, > > there are several packages for network manager and related software in > the official repositories. Unfortunately, they follow different naming > schemes. Most packages have "networkmanager" written as one word: > > * networkmanager > * networkmanager-openconnect > * networkmanager-pptp > * networkmanager-vpnc > * networkmanager-strongswan > * networkmanager-openvpn > * ... > > However, some packages have "network-manager" written with a hyphen: > > * network-manager-applet > * network-manager-sstp > > And then there is > > * nm-connection-editor > * nm-cloud-setup > > which follows it's own naming scheme of having "networkmanager" redacted > to "nm". > > Unfortunately, that makes it hard to remember how each package is > called. Therefore there's always some guessing or searching involved > when installing a network manager related feature. Of course, this is > not the biggest issue of all time, but I think it's more complicated > than it should be. Can we simplify the naming conventions of those > packages to use one common scheme that's easy to remember instead of > having multiple coexisting ones? These are the upstream names of the relevant projects. So the "why" of things is not hard to understand. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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