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RE: Incorrect version in packages names
- From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 14:58:52 +0200
- Subject: RE: Incorrect version in packages names
> 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.
Yes, this is it.
>
> 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.
>
Thanks for this hint.
Ralf