Assuming I'm following all this correctly...

  gnome2/speech/gnome2-speech
  gnome2/accessibility/screen-reader
  gnome2/accessibility/gnome-a11y-poke

would be installed via 

  # pkg install gnome2-speech
  # pkg install screen-reader
  # pkg install gnome-a11y-poke

respectively.(?)

If so, I'd suggest instead

  gnome2/speech/gnome-speech
  gnome2/accessibility/orca
  gnome2/accessibility/accerciser

Glancing quickly over other items, it looks like 'terminal' was
similarly chosen instead of 'gnome-terminal' and 'calculator' over
'gcalctool'.

Personally, I think it would be great if (when feasible) package names
could correspond with actual (project and executable) names.

Take care.
--joanie

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 09:26 -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote:
> Now that the bulk of the feature development for pkg(5) is finished
>   for 2010.next, I'd like to get a few of the distribution-oriented
>   changes lined up as well.  First among these is Rich's proposed set of
>   package renames, as proposed in
> 
> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6186
> 
>   These follow the various threads we've had on package naming:
> 
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2008-March/002354.html
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2008-May/003501.html
> 
>   In 2009.06 and subsequently, we've been introducing new packages under
>   the new scheme, in part to see the effect on the clients, but also to
>   determine .  With Danek's work on renaming and obsoletion, and the
>   legacy action (for SysV dependency handling), we can proceed to rename
>   the bulk of the remaining packages.  (There are a few packages that
>   may live under their old names until refactoring and removal.)
> 
>   To recap these changes at a high level:
> 
>   - packages intended to be installed by a user should have a unique
>     basename, to ease use of the short form,
> 
>   - the following top-level package categories are introduced
> 
>         audio
>         codec
>         command
>         compress
>         developer
>         doc
>         driver
>         editor
>         games
>         gnome2
>         image
>         library
>         mail
>         network
>         package
>         platform
>         print
>         release
>         service
>         shell
>         source
>         storage
>         system
>         text
>         web
>         x11
> 
>   - Of these, the "system", "library", and "platform" categories are
>     expected to contain packages not of interest to a typical user.
> 
>   - Packages delivering only an smf(5) services are expected to use the
>     "service" category.
> 
>   - "release" is expected to be a distribution's means of delivery for
>     distribution-wide files, such as a product README, a license, and
>     distribution-specific content.  It should be the eventual home of
>     branding packages.
> 
>   - The "bundle", "feature", "group", and "vendor" categories are still
>     reserved, although the distribution may start introducing
>     "group"-categorized packages to simplify the writing of installer
>     manifests.  We'll start a separate discussion for that proposal once
>     it's ready.
> 
>   In this scheme, operations we've seen complaints about should become
>   intuitive:
> 
>   # pkg install bison
>   # pkg install firefox
>   ...
> 
>   If you identify a popular package for which the pkg install invocation
>   isn't obvious (or nearly so), please comment.  Please review the lists
>   in 6186 for package names and add your comments to that bug, or share
>   them here.  Although we can adjust names later via subsequent renames,
>   we would like to get "close" on this first integration, so comments
>   are definitely welcome.
> 
>   Thanks
>   Stephen
> 
> 


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