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

Tonus tonus1 at free.fr
Sat Apr 8 11:23:01 UTC 2023


On Sat, Apr 08, 2023 at 11:53:48AM +0200, marav wrote:
>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
>>
>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
>
>

I agree with marav. Best to see at first sight what's the diff.
Perhaps shall we do the same with .deb repack.

-- 
Regards,

Tonus


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