[Slackbuilds-users] Orphaning SlackBuild Scripts

[B. Watson]

On Sun, 3 May 2026, Dimitar Nikov via SlackBuilds-users wrote:

> - perl-Digest-SHA

Slackware's perl package already contains this perl module. It's a
slightly older version (Slackware has 6.02, you packaged 6.04).

Do we really need it? Your hw-probe depends on it, but it seems to run
fine without it... and we do have a policy of not including anything
in SBo that's already included in Slackware.

One amusing thing: hw-probe runs "pacman", I suppose it's trying
to run the Arch package tool, but here I have the SBo games/pacman
package installed, and so running hw-probe actually runs the game.  It
should probably be patched to look in /sbin or wherever Arch keeps its
pacman package manager (the game is installed as /usr/games/pacman)...
or just patch it to skip pacman entirely, since we're making a
Slackware package, and we know we're not running on Arch.

This would be something for the new maintainer to look into, since
you're abandoning it.