On 2 Aug 2002, Craige McWhirter wrote: > On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 15:29, James Gregory wrote: > > > you'll notice that debian has a similar convention (though just looking > > through "apt-cache search freetype" on our token debian computer here seems > > to show a slightly counter-intuitive variant in this case) > > G'day James, I followed your example to see what was counter-intuitive > but as "apt-cache search freetype" doesn't show the version number I ran > a different command (there is no "freetype" package in the current > Debian system), shown below, the output of which seemed quite clear to > me, so I genuinely would like to know what was counter-intuitive.
Sure. The command I ran was this (well, this one will highlight the problem): $ apt-cache search freetype | egrep 'freetype|ttf' freetype-tools - Bundled tests, demos and tools for FreeType freetype1 - The FREE TrueType Font Engine, shared library files (old). freetype1-dev - FreeType development files (static library and headers) (old) freetype2-dev - FreeType development files (static library and headers). clanlib2-ttf - TTF module for ClanLib game SDK freetype1-tools - Bundled tests, demos and tools for FreeType 1 freetype2 - Dummy package for transition to libttf2. freetype2-demos - FreeType 2 demonstration programs. gimp-freetype - text plug-in for GIMP based on freetype libfreetype6 - FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files. libfreetype6-dev - FreeType 2 font engine, development files libttf-dev - FreeType 1 development files (static library and headers). libttf2 - FreeType 1, The FREE TrueType Font Engine, shared library files. ttf2pt1 - A TrueType to PostScript Type 1 Font Converter freetype2 was the package I'd have expected to store freetype2, but it says that that's a dummy wrapper around libttf2. libttf2 is apparently freetype 1. So, if I understand dependency resolution correctly, doing apt-get install freetype2 would actually result in freetype1 being installed. There is libfreetype6 there, which I suspect has what I would have expected in freetype2, and I understand that apt-get would probably find it somewhere in the resolution, but I found it a little counter-intuitive was all. I expect the package that holds freetype2 to be called freetype2. But I concede that it's probably a cultual thing. I'm sure that the naming scheme is perfectly sensible if you happen to like the debian way of doing things. So sorry, I should have qualified that with *I* find it counter-intuitive. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
