Re: Who can tell me the difference between syslinux and syslinux-common in debian

[Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>]

许凌 writes:

> Who can tell me the difference between syslinux and syslinux-common in debian?
> they have the same source code.

The products of a single source code package can be split (and usually
they do) into several binary packages. In this case, the `common' one
holds architecture independent files and the other the dependent
ones. You can check it at

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/syslinux

and

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/syslinux-common

-- 
Alberto