[Slackbuilds-users] incomplete/bad READMEs/slack-descs. thorium.SlackBuild defeats purpose

[David Chmelik]

The Thorium web browser was created to fork Chromium to several newer 
classes of CPUs than Chromium considers minimal (very old).  I noticed 
thorium.SlackBuild simply repackages an arbitrary .deb, which I believe 
repackaging .debs & .rpms are almost always a bad way to do things, 
despite some SlackBuilds.org team members sometimes do that themselves.  
Sometimes it's quicker than compiling--fair enough--but I consider 
generally best to make .txz from source code, apart from certain single 
binaries, which using other GNU/Linux packages is more similar to.  I 
occasionally run into problems with converted .debs & .rpms, though 
can't remember the last time that happened from SlackBuilds.org.  I also 
just like to see the source code and be able to patch it, even if it 
might take a minute or several or hours longer (apart from a few very 
big things like GIMP, google-go-lang, KDE, nodejs, pandoc, webkits... 
used to compile GIMP & KDE on NetBSD UNIX which I then saw 100+ 
dependencies or took a week).
         For Thorium, repackaging an arbitrary .deb defeats its entire 
purpose that it's meant to run compiled native to a large variety of 
CPUs and be as fast as it can on each including not slower on newer ones.
         It also seems to be by one of the people who's simply using 
line #1 of slack-desc (and not filling it out) rather than using 
projects' READMEs nor writing a helpful one at all.  I ask that a rule 
be made to include proper README, and fill out slack-desc accordingly.
         That being said, thorium.SlackBuild is more than two years old 
by apparently inactive maintainer, so likely will be considered orphaned 
if not already.  I would not recommend using that version (if security 
is an issue) rather than official fork the creator's source-code 
repository links to the guy temporarily helping him, though they've only 
made beta versions most this year.
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