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

[Christoph Willing]

On 8/4/23 16:53, 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.

It was a joke.

However the change would be:
     libreoffice -> libreoffice-bin and LibreOffice -> libreoffice
     blender -> blender-bin         and Blender -> blender

since the currently capitalized versions build from source and 
uncapitalized versions repackage binaries.

chris