[arch-general] Network manager package naming

[Eli Schwartz]

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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