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

marav marav8 at free.fr
Sat Apr 8 09:53:48 UTC 2023


Le 08/04/2023 à 11:29, Christoph Willing a écrit :
> 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
>
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I for one, I think all binary packages should be renamed with *-bin

It gives the most important information that the slackbuild is not a 
compiled version, directly in the name
No matter if there is a compiled version or not
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