[Slackbuilds-users] cmake3.30.SlackBuild category and naming

[Andrzej Telszewski]

On 19/10/2024 11:39, B. Watson wrote:
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> On Sat, 19 Oct 2024, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
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>> You use it the exactly the same way you do now.
>> Just in REQUIRES it would become "cmake-opt".
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> When I did this for Slackware 14.2, I called mine "cmake-202x". That
> was out of irritation (it was 2022 or so, and we were stuck with a
> cmake from the previous decade)... cmake-opt is a better name, though.

+1 for the name.
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>> The point is that, at some point, we will need them again, so they 
>> can be easily re-used.
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> Yes. We'd remove them from the live repo, but they'd still be
> available in the git history.

Makes sense. :-)

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>> We could maintain these packages at the latest stable versions from 
>> upstream.
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> If the latest stable upstream version is *newer* than what's in
> Slackware, that makes good sense. But not if it's the same version.
> That's just extra effort for no gain.

Agree.