On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 21:58 -0400, darehanl wrote: > and what does packages' refer to?
"packages'", with the apostrophe, is the genitive form of "packages". The context in dpkg is this: > the name used by other packages' versions Here it's the possessive genitive; a paraphrase would be "the name used by the versions of other packages". Normally, one would addd "'s" to the end of a word to create this form, but this is differnt for words ending in -s. Compare it to: - "Jack's book" <-> "the book of Jack"; - "Thijs' book" <-> "the book of Thijs". Hope this clears it up a bit. Thijs
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