On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 02:36:53PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi- > > i've been wondering...why is newt named things like 'newt0.21' or > 'newt0.25' instead of 'newt_0.21' or 'newt_0.25'? > > looking at the answer to question 6.3 in the debian faq, it appears > that 'newt0.21' and 'newt0.25' are package names for different packages -- > that is, '0.21' and '0.25' appear to be part of the package name in > these cases. > > is this intentional?
Lets hope so ;) What this doe sis make the version name part of the package. This is done because often differnt versions are incompatible with eachother. It i scommon with libraries.... The problem is normally when you install a new version of a package the old version is removed...this would break anything using the old version so this allows you to install both versions (ie. libc5 and libc6 etc) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux" -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
