Bug 263660

Summary: "gnome3" is listed for install instructions
Product: Documentation Reporter: John Darrah <johntdarrah>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Many People CC: ale, grahamperrin, pauamma, sblachmann
Priority: ---    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 263315    

Description John Darrah 2022-04-29 16:23:18 UTC 
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/#x11-wm

I think it should be updated to "gnome-41".

No matches for "gnome3" according to my PKG (latest)
Comment 1 Baptiste Daroussin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-04-30 08:12:13 UTC 
this should be renamed to simply gnome instead of gnome3
Comment 2 Stefan B. 2022-04-30 23:06:17 UTC 
The decision documented in the freshports package logs to make that name change of the "gnome3" package to "gnome" is imho an idiotic thing.

It took almost one month until gnome reappeared in the repos.
It was not available using pkg that whole time, neither as "gnome" nor as "gnome3", in latest as well as quarterly repos.

The same goes with "xfce4" which has similiarly been renamed to "xfce", also reappeared only a month later, and still disappears from the pkg database from time to time.

These useless name changes only frustrate users and should be avoided at all imho.
Comment 3 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-05-03 06:42:40 UTC 
A commit in branch main references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=6d50dd7f08ad3a3847c717bd22d247ed7b7d7d0f

commit 6d50dd7f08ad3a3847c717bd22d247ed7b7d7d0f
Author:     Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-05-03 06:40:22 +0000
Commit:     Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2022-05-03 06:40:22 +0000

    handbook: replace `gnome3` package with `gnome`

    PR:             263660
    Submitted by:   John Darrah <johntdarrah@gmail.com>

 documentation/content/en/books/handbook/x11/_index.adoc | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)