[Slackbuilds-users] new maintainers omitting READMEs

[Willy Sudiarto Raharjo]

>> Should READMEs on SBo be more descriptive? Probably. But some 
>> developers don't provide a concise description of their programs [...]
> They all do for first line in sbopkg menu.

sbopkg is designed to help you build the source into native Slackware 
packages, not to help you READ the DETAIL of the script.

> I'd guess that's mostly nonsense; many people find most their programs 
> in software managers including programs to run build scripts, such as 
> sbopkg: I do this weekly.  Most what I installed I found in sbopkg, not 
> by finding a webpage for software I don't even know exists, which only 
> happened in rare cases.  For third-party repositories (such as 
> slackers.it and quasi-official alienBOB & RLWorkman's ones (them being 
> Slackware team members)) it's even more the case that I look in 
> repositories to find/know what I want to try.  Dependencies need READMEs 
> just as much as what they depend on, because people may read all lines 
> in sbopkg (I did originally and maybe once/year, and all updates, or at 
> least searching through for 'added') and it's common to add software 
> depending on those, or even just write a program depending on them; a 
> large number of dependencies have software using them by multiple 
> maintainers, and I occasionally install libraries/APIs I want to try, 
> and made a SlackBuild of a library (though it has test software).

Again, we are talking about 2 different things
SBo is the repository that contains all the READMEs, while sbopkg is 
just a third party tool outside of SBo.

Just browse the SBo website for information and use sbopkg (or any other 
third party tool) to build it. That should solve your problem.


-- 
Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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