Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:17:05 -0000 From: "local.freebsd.questions" <freebsd-questions-local@insignia.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports renaming Message-ID: <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C3670289D788@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com>
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:07:40 -0000 , adamw@FreeBSD.ORG (Adam Weinberger) wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >>> (02.05.2003 @ 0248 PST): local.freebsd.questions said, in 0.3K: << >> Anyone like to shed any light on why a lot of the >> multimedia ports seem to be getting renamed recently? > >Such as? > >> I see -esound appearing as a suffix on a lot of package >> names (frinstance xmms). And I don't have Enlightentment >> installed. > >Is this a separate question, or is this the renaming you refer to? ESD >is not restricted to Enlightenment. It's how GNOME handles sound. That was indeed it. While running portupgrade I have seen a number of "the port has been renamed" messages, and usually they have grown an -esound on the end of the name. Here's an extract from pkg_info: >esound-0.2.29 A sound library for enlightenment package >libmikmod-esound-3.1.10 MikMod Sound Library >mplayer-gtk-esound-0.90.0.103_1 High performance media player/encoder supporting > many forma >xmms-esound-1.2.7_3 X Multimedia System --- An audio player with a Winamp GUI hence my reference to Enlightenment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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