On Wednesday 11 of January 2017 19:46:32 deloptes wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering why is there two different packages with similar name > ... but I think I am too lazy to look in detail into the code. I use > [1] while kmplayer[3] is dependant on [2]. I don't have any other > application depending on [2] and as I have my kplayer I dropped [2] > completely, but still curious why is it like this. > > thanks and regards > > [1] > dpkg -L libdbus-1-tqt > /. > /usr > /usr/share > /usr/share/doc > /usr/share/doc/libdbus-1-tqt > /usr/share/doc/libdbus-1-tqt/README > /usr/share/doc/libdbus-1-tqt/AUTHORS > /usr/share/doc/libdbus-1-tqt/changelog.gz > /usr/share/doc/libdbus-1-tqt/changelog.Debian.gz > /usr/share/doc/libdbus-1-tqt/TODO > /usr/share/doc/libdbus-1-tqt/copyright > /usr/lib > /usr/lib/libdbus-1-tqt.so.0.0.0 > /usr/lib/libdbus-1-tqt.so.0 > > [2] > dpkg -c libdbus-tqt-1-1c2_14.1.0-0debian8.0.5+eko3_amd64.deb | awk > '{print $6}' > ./ > ./usr/ > ./usr/share/ > ./usr/share/doc/ > ./usr/share/doc/libdbus-tqt-1-1c2/ > ./usr/share/doc/libdbus-tqt-1-1c2/copyright > ./usr/share/doc/libdbus-tqt-1-1c2/changelog.gz > ./usr/share/doc/libdbus-tqt-1-1c2/NEWS.gz > ./usr/share/doc/libdbus-tqt-1-1c2/changelog.Debian.gz > ./usr/share/doc/libdbus-tqt-1-1c2/README.gz > ./usr/share/doc/libdbus-tqt-1-1c2/AUTHORS > ./usr/lib/ > ./usr/lib/libdbus-tqt-1.so.0.0.0 > ./usr/lib/libdbus-tqt-1.so.0 > > [3] > apt-get install kmplayer-trinity > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > kmplayer-base-trinity libdbus-tqt-1-1c2 > Suggested packages: > vdr > Recommended packages: > kmplayer-plugin-trinity > The following NEW packages will be installed: > kmplayer-base-trinity kmplayer-trinity libdbus-tqt-1-1c2 > 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > Need to get 893 kB of archives. > After this operation, 3,882 kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > Yes, the names are very similar. However, the code is very different. Older library dbus-tqt (built as libdbus-tqt-1-1c2) is primitive, provides fewer capabilities, harder to work with it and is usually not used when developing new code. In truth, I'm surprised that it is used in KMPlayer - I expected that now is used only in kpowersave. Newer library dbus-1-tqt (built as libdbus-1-tqt) is more versatile, its use is natural for TQt applications. If you need to use dbus, it is certainly a better option to use dbus-1-tqt. Cheers -- Slávek