[Slackbuilds-users] SlackBuild Ettiquette

Barry Grundy bgrundy at gmail.com
Thu Nov 13 12:01:42 UTC 2014


Excellent responses, and all much appreciated.  I'll look through some of
the examples King Beowulf cited and go that route.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Christoph Willing <
chris.willing at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> In accordance with the general Slackware practice of leaving upstream
> alone as far as possible, I would suggest that the default values you
> choose for options should be whatever are the defaults in the software
> itself, _not_ what you happen to use yourself.
>
> Its quite annoying when SlackBuilds choose options contrary to the
> upstream defaults.
>

This is the sort of thing I was looking for.  I appreciate the explanation.
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