[aur-general] Libreoffice in AUR

Ng Oon-Ee ngoonee at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 03:27:46 EDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 09:14 +0200, Stefan Husmann wrote:
> Am 14.10.2010 08:42, schrieb Ng Oon-Ee:
> > I just noticed that libreoffice-new has been uploaded. Contrary to the
> > last post in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=105664 the old
> > libreoffice in the AUR has not yet (to my searching) been deleted (I
> > think its been reuploaded). Obviously, its exactly the same.
> > 
> > I wonder what the point is of having libreoffice-new though. It's
> > basically just extracting of some rpms, as compared to the libreoffice
> > from [testing].
> > 
> > I propose that libreoffice[1] and libreoffice-new[2] be deleted. The
> > author should reupload as libreoffice-bin. If a TU agrees, I volunteer
> > to email the author.
> > 
> > [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41792
> > [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41793
> > 
> > 
> Hello,
> 
> I deleted libreoffice again because of the name clash. But in the past 
> we allowed binary versions or beta versions of some projects, so why not 
> doing here?
> 
> I would not recommend its usage, but let people decide.
> 
> Regards Stefan

I was just thinking the name is misleading, and -bin is a better name.



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