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