[Slackbuilds-users] electron maintainer

[Michael Dinon]

Kind regards,
Mike


On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM Christoph Willing <chris.willing at linux.com>
wrote:

> On 16/10/25 08:05, Ιωάννης wrote:
> > I see that the electron is orphaned, I would like to be the maintainer.
> > If I have permission, then its better for me to create a new
> > SlackBuild electron-bin as we are repackaging a binary file. So in the
> > future  if someone wants to build from source electron will have the
> > electron free.
>
> After the occasional hoo-ha about naming of SlackBuilds for binary vs
> source code builds, I'd like to say how much I appreciate a maintainer
> aiming to "do the right thing".
>
> It's a shame when maintainers of binary packages refuse to rename a
> package (by adding "-bin") to make room for a SlackBuild which builds
> the same package from source code.
>
> For the future, could we add a criterion for new submissions requiring
> addition of "-bin" to the SlackBuild name when repackaging a binary
> download?
>
>
> chris
>
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