[Slackbuilds-users] LibreOffice vs libreoffice (confusing, too vague)

David O'Shaughnessy lists at osh.id.au
Sat Apr 8 08:56:23 UTC 2023


I wouldn't mind seeing binary repacks with -bin appended. I'd have to rename some of my own builds, but at least there's some information in the title. Differentiating by capitalization seems very arbitrary. 

On Sat, 8 Apr 2023, at 2:53 PM, B. Watson wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Apr 2023, Christoph Willing wrote:
>
>> Perhaps those *-bin SlackBuilds should have followed the existing 
>> convention provided 2 years earlier by Libreoffice/libreoffice - also 
>> Blender/blender 3 years earlier in Aug 2015.
>
> Gods, no. We'd have had even more confusion. Just because it was done
> doesn't make it a good idea to keep doing...
>
> I think having 2 builds with names that only differ in capitalization
> is a horrible idea. I'd even say it'd be a good idea to rename
> LibreOffice to libreoffice-bin and Blender to blender-bin.
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