[SOLVED]What do '-bin' and '-git' refer to in package names

pnexma · 2022-12-14 22:36:28

This might be a bit of a stupid question, but I cant seem to find an answer online.

Last edited by pnexma (2022-12-18 03:39:55)

Trilby · 2022-12-14 22:41:10

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_su … guidelines
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VCS_PK … Guidelines

EDIT: half of this question was answered in your previous thread that you appear to have abandoned. If that thread is solved, please mark it as such.

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pnexma · 2022-12-14 22:55:59

I didn't even realize I had posted in the past, but looking back on my posts is honestly embarrassing. Is it alright to just mark all of my previous posts as solved even if a proper answer was never given/I never came up with a solution?

cfr · 2022-12-15 00:17:57

pnexma wrote:

I didn't even realize I had posted in the past, but looking back on my posts is honestly embarrassing. Is it alright to just mark all of my previous posts as solved even if a proper answer was never given/I never came up with a solution?

It would be better not as people looking for answers may look in threads marked as solved for solutions. You can always report your thread to request it be deleted, though. So if you don't think the threads are useful, that might be a better option.

Trilby · 2022-12-15 02:05:56

I second the above. Marking a thread as [SOLVED] is mostly to inform future visitors on whether the information they need might be found there. However, it can also be nice for those who attempted to help to get some indication that their effort didn't fall on deaf ears. While "That didn't work" is not the best reply in most cases, it at least indicates that a suggestion was recieved (sidenote, "That didn't work" isn't great, but "I tried that and here's the resulting error message ..." is great).

And in this case of this thread, the two links I provided may answer your question. If so, this one can be marked as SOLVED, but if not, feel free to elaborate on what uncertainty remains.

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#1 2022-12-14 22:36:28

[SOLVED]What do '-bin' and '-git' refer to in package names

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