"Bad Penguin" Naming Convention
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Author: Antonio Gallo <agx@linux.it>
  Date: Fri May 26 22:46:48 2000 (2.0.0)
Update: Thu Nov 16 18:54:08 2000 (2.0.4)



1. Name structure
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A package name is made of 2 main parts separated by an underscore (_):
the package name ($SONAME) and the package version ($VERSION).

The packages name is usually made up by the name of the software
plus an extension concatenated by a minus (-).

Common extensions are:
  shared  - the package contains shared (.so) libraries
  headers - the package contains include includes (.h) files
  static  - the package contains static (.sa) libraries
  devel   - the package contains both includes (.h) and
            static (.sa) libraries
  static  - the package contains only the binaries of a software
  doc     - the package contains only the docs and mans of a software

Some example:
    libncurses-shared_4.2
    libncurses-devel_4.2
    libncurses-doc_4.2
    libncurses-bin_4.2
    gimp_1.1.2


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