[Slackbuilds-users] naming conventions (compiled & binary) (was Re: LibreOffice vs libreoffice (confusing, too vague))

[dchmelik at gmail.com]

On 4/8/23 2:29 AM, Christoph Willing wrote:
> 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.

Aren't there still many capitalized SlackBuilds that build from source 
without each matching a SlackBuild that does a binary?  I thought it'd 
be up to upstream and maintainers what capitalization to use... not that 
I do any that use binaries.