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