Documentation for gentoo instalation shows incorreect package name

[10leej]

I filed a bug about this in gentoo's GURU bugtracker already
https://bugs.gentoo.org/972017

Just figured I'd make you guys aware of this for your docs as well
https://mangowm.github.io/docs/installation#gentoo

[10leej]

I suggest for now please correct the docs that the package name is gui-wm/mangowc until the GURU team responds?

https://github.com/mangowm/mango/blob/main/docs/installation.md#gentoo

[Yappaholic]

Hi, I'm the maintainer of the Gentoo package in GURU.

I did push the change to rename the package to gui-wm/mangowm (though I didn't do a proper pkgmove because of inexperience) and didn't update the docs.

There was a story of this project being renamed multiple times (maomaowm -> mangowc -> mangowm) and I was just waiting for a better time to do a package rename after 0.12.8 release.

Hopefully renaming package without pkgmove will not break anything and I'll try to update docs ASAP.

[misterj05]

You definitely need to do a pkgmove as there will be conflicts for people with existing installs, it's not as hard as it sounds, check other renaming commits or the history of the profiles/updates folder in GURU and you'll see what you need to do.

Without the pkgmove portage will treat both the names as two separate packages and when trying to install the new name it will see that the files from the "new" package conflict with the package of the old name and will not install without first uninstalling the old name. The pkgmove essentially transfers existing installs over to the new package name, without it those installs are dead in the water. They won't even see a prompt to update as portage sees them as two separate packages.

It is likely why OP didn't know that the package was renamed because portage wasn't made aware of it.

[Yappaholic]

Done