[Slackbuilds-users] Orphaning SlackBuild Scripts

[B. Watson]

On Sun, 3 May 2026, Ιωάννης wrote:

> I can take hw-probe if you agree
> I will use AppImage that has no requires and run fine in slackware-15.0

Please don't use an AppImage. hw-probe is written in Perl, and Perl
isn't a "moving target". This is a tiny perl script with no support
files needed at runtime.

If you do take hw-probe over, can I suggest adding some of its documentation
to the /usr/doc/hw-probe-$VERSION dir? LICENSE.md, README.md, NEWS.md, and
the 2 licenses in the LICENSES/ dir should be in the package IMO.

If you absolutely *insist* on using an AppImage, please submit it as a
new build called hw-probe-bin.

Repackaging a binary should be a last resort, when it's the only way
to get something to work on Slackware. That's not the case with hw-probe.
I updated it locally to the latest release (1.6.6) and it works fine.