Charlie Li wrote: > The Cinnamon desktop environment now has its own collection of desktop > applications, X-Apps, basically forked from their GNOME and MATE > counterparts. The text editor, forked from editors/gedit (and will be > repocopied from there when committed into our main svn repository), is > named xed. This clearly collides in name with a completely unrelated > editors/xed. > > In the gnome@ devel repo, I've placed the Cinnamon/X-Apps xed as > editors/x-ed, with PORTNAME=xed, without adding to INDEX. The existing > editors/xed is not maintained in our ports tree, and it even looks > abandoned upstream (if an upstream even exists still). What do? > Bump thread.
Since I didn't get any feedback with how to proceed, here is what an overwrite of editors/xed would look like (barring how git messed up file/path-level semantics): https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-gnome/pull/33/commits/01998e06a57f9a0aa4ed9ab063fc4a77a70ed171 This is probably not optimal, which begs the question, is there a better way of doing this? -- Charlie Li …nope, still don't have an exit line. (This email address is for mailing list use; replace local-part with vishwin for off-list communication if possible)
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