editors/xed name collision

[Charlie Li]

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.

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