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Re: What's the -0 in libgtk2.0-0?



Le jeudi 08 mars 2007 à 06:59 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I noted that many GTK-related library packages are often named in a
> form of libgtk2.0-0 and libglib2.0-0. What's the -0 for?

This is the version information carried in the SONAME. For GTK+, the
SONAME is libgtk-*-2.0.so.0, so the last 0 has to be matched in the
package name as well.

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