Incorrect version in packages names

Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Mon Jul 8 08:10:00 GMT 2002



Christopher Faylor wrote:


> upset would probably do the right thing with the above but I really don't
> see any reason to use it, regardless.  I don't see any reason why a user
> would need to know that these are kdelibs-2 when it is pretty obvious from
> the version number.


The naming was probably inherited from linux, where it is possible to 
have both kde (1) and kde (2) and kde (3) all installed on the same 
machine.  Therefore, each needs different basename.

If the kde-cygwin folks want to maintain that package-name distinction, 
then they should just use "kdelibs_2" instead of "kdelibs-2" as their 
basename.  Then upset and setup will be happy -- and end users will be 
able to install both kdelibs_2 and kdelibs_3.

--Chuck




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