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Originally Posted by linuxmandrake
ah why do we have different names for the same package? Sound a tad silly to me!!
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It makes sense when you look at the packages in a search or you try to have for example 2 versions of say Python installed. If you only have the package named python then that is it only one version but if you have python2.1, python2.2 ... then you can have multiple versions installed.