[Slackbuilds-users] Proposal for Slackware category in SBo

[Jheengut Pritvi]

On 22 March 2018 at 23:46, Ricardo J. Barberis <ricardo at palmtx.com.ar> wrote:
> El Jueves 22/03/2018 a las 16:00, David Woodfall escribió:
>> On Friday 23 March 2018 07:27,
>> klaatu at mixedsignals.ml <klaatu at mixedsignals.ml> put forth the proposition:
>> >Rich's recent question (from which I learned much) made me think that
>> >maybe there ought to be a "Slackware" category in the SBo repo.
>> >
>> >A "Slackware" category would contain applications that are useful only
>> >in Slackware. That is to say: there are applications that are useful
>> >across Linux, and then there are tools that are designed exclusively
>> >for Slackware (usually package management, often based on either
>> >Slackpkg or SBo). Tools that are useful in BOTH Linux and Slackware
>> >would *not* appear in this category.
>> >
>> >Here are some examples. See how many of them you knew existed, and how
>> >many you know about but think more people might need help finding:
>> >* sbopkg
>> >* sboui
>> >* sbbdep
>> >* slackpkg+
>> >* sport
>> >* sbotools
>
> Some of those are not on SBo.
>
>> * mkslack :)
>
> Nice one!
>
>
> Also: https://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=slackware
>
> That query returns, among others:
>
> asbt
> slack-utils
> slackchlog
> slackroll
> slpkg
> sun
> swun
>
> So, maybe simply tagging Slackware specific utilities with "slackware" would
> be enough.
>
> Or at least a start :)
>

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>
>> >It seems to me like hiding great Slackware-specific sys utils harms
>> >discoverability, and mixing them into other, broader categories serves
>> >no purpose anyway. Sure, sboui might be a System tool, but let's face
>> >it: it's a Slackware "addon" that nobody knows to look for, and it's
>> >not just a system tool, it's a Slackware tool. Why not create a
>> >category we can all go to when we have questions like Rich's, and see
>> >what cool script or application one of our colleagues has written to
>> >scratch the itch?
>> >
>> >Can anyone think of a reason this would be harmful, or not helpful?
>> >
>> >-klaatu
>
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