Re: 2 versions of some packages
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
> Also, there are two version of gs (Aladdin and GNU versions). While I see
> the need for two versions here, perhaps they should be named differently
> (gs_alladin and gs_gnu both providing gs). Having two versions with the
> same name confuses dftp. I don't know if dselect can cope better with this
> or not.
Then I say it's a bug in dftp. Dselect/dpkg-ftp has no problem with this
whatsoever. And having two names would be confusing, because it really
*is* the same package with two versions, one that's free software and the
other not.
Christian
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