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<p id="reply-intro">On 23/03/2025 09:53, B. Watson wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">On Sat, 22 Mar 2025, Noel Butler via SlackBuilds-users wrote:</span><br /><br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">We didnt call postfix postfix-bin and so on, built or pre built, who cares, so no, just use the standard naming convention for the binary, ie: postfix, or yourbinary...</span></blockquote>
<br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Since you didn't read the whole thread, here's a synopsis.</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">The -bin suffix is proposed because of things like "libreoffice"</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">and "LibreOffice", which both exist in our repo. One is a build from</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">source, the other is a repackaged binary. Calling them "libreoffice"</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">and "libreoffice-bin" would make a *lot* more sense.</span></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">rubbish, you'll do little more than create confusion - I've seen it before.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Why do both exist? Because it literally takes all day to compile</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">libreoffice on some systems. Someone thought it would be a good idea</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">to offer users the choice to use the repackaged binary, so they could</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">just get on with using libreoffice when needed instead of waiting</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">all day.</span></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">So? installing 2 versions of anything is fraught with risks and incredibly rare. Compiling by source knowing you want to also install a packaged version is pretty common in past 30 years to install the source version into /opt</div>
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