> Why should users care about project names?  Project names are useful to
> disambiguate between alternatives that provide similar functionality.

Because when I look for new applications in the internet <put favorite
search engine here> will spit out a project name. On the homepage of
this project I can check out the features and how it looks like and then
decide if I want to install it.

If I then can just run "pkg install project" instead of going to pkg.o.o
first and search (or using pkg search) and filter out the results the
latter is more work for me.

But then, I might be not the regular user.

Erik

> 
> For example, these are all GUI terminals: xtrem, rxvt, gnome-terminal,
> roxterm, terminator, ...  I should be able to install "terminal" and get
> all of them, or "terminal/terminator" to install just terminator.
> Similarly for screen readers, etcetera.
> 
> Nico


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