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What is difference between packages such as bin, git?
Like brave has 3 builds brave, brave-bin, brave-git.
Last edited by anks (2017-04-24 07:33:51)
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-bin is a binary, so you are downloading the prebuilt version packaged upstream (presumably current stable release). -git is HEAD.
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bin: binary version of a package. probably stable.
git: non-stable or alternative version of a package.
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The normal package is created by downloading the latest stable sources and compiling them. The resulting binaries have been built by the Arch packager.
The "bin" version downloads pre-compiled binaries from the upstream developer and just wraps them in a package without compiling anything. This is useful when compilation is complicated or takes too long (e.g. some packages would needs hours and more RAM than most users have to compile).
The "git", "svg", "hg" and other similar packages are developmental packages. Instead of downloading the latest stable sources from a fixed release, they download the latest committed code from upstream's version control repository. Every time the package is built, it automatically uses the most recent code, which may be unstable but which will include all the latest updates. This code is compiled when the package is created.
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Moving thread to AUR issues.
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