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Dne 28.3.2013 12:09, Florian Festi napsal(a):
> This is done to make life easier for package maintainers.
Sorry, you definitely not speak for me! This are just excuses. And I
asked already several times to have some way to reliable support
multiple version of packages without mangling their names.
gtk vs gtk2 vs gtk3 is not about multiple versions of a package, though. It is about
multiple parallel installable branches. There are independent updates for gtk2 and for
gtk3. I don't think you can really handle that within the same package name. Using a
major version suffix for that is a well-established convention - I haven't seen any
actual problem with this convention mentioned in this discussion so far.
Matthias