Ben Reser wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:13:04AM +0200, Michal Bukovjan wrote: >> there is a Perl-GTK2 package in main, but Perl-Gtk2 package in contrib >> (their name differs in case). >> The first one is required by drakxtools, the other one by latest >> rpmdrake, and the two cannot be installed at once. >> >> Why the confusion? > > No confusion. One is a perl implementation of the Gtk2 bindings. One > is a complete XS implementation of the Gtk2 bindings. I don't remember > which. It'd be nice if they had differences in the names besides case, > but oh well...
perl-GTK , in main, the old perl-Inline implemenation perl-Gtk , in contrib, the new XS implementation Search the archives for "contrib perl thierry," Thierry gave some wonderful explanations of all of this.
