[Slackbuilds-users] [RFC] a binary repack SlackBuild template.

[phalange at komputermatrix.com]

On 2025-03-04 01:29, Lockywolf wrote:
> Dear SlackBuilds community,
> 
> Increasingly, we have to write more and more binary repacks,
> as software is becoming harder and harder to build on the premises.
> 
> While this is an unfortunate development, and the community members
> are encouraged to build software from the original sources to ensure
> transparency and flexibility, sometimes building a package as a
> repack is an unnecessary evil.
> 
> This message has (attached) a proposed binary-repacking SlackBuild,
> which I would like to propose for an inclusion into the templates
> repository.
> 
> Please comment and suggest how this template can be improved.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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I'll pass on the template.

Also binaries have important use cases. For example I package pandoc-bin 
because I (and probably many others) can't be bothered to build all 10 
million Haskell dependencies for one app.

I'm open to *-bin on binaries, but for the few users who care enough to 
fuss over the difference, I bet they're building their own.

FreeBSD does ports and pkgs. That's another solution but a lot of 
overhead.