Port Names - How to choose?

js ebgssth at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 19:25:50 PST 2008


FYI, in FreeBSD ports, they are simply called libICE and libSM respectively.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/libICE/
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/libSM/

On Feb 10, 2008 3:27 AM, Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a few ports that I would like to add.  Some of them seem to
> have standard names, but at least two of them do not.
>
> The two that I am not sure about are:
> xorg-libICE
> xorg-libSM
>
> They can be found here: http://www.x.org/pub/individual/lib/
>
> Most of the libraries on xorg are libXyyy, but these are not.
>
> It seems that the x.org ports are all prefixed with xorg-{name}.  Is
> his a standard we want to continue?
>
> Michael
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