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#1 2020-04-13 14:01:42
- daniel_shub
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What is the difference betwee the two rstudio packages?
There seems to be at least 4 packages that provide provide R Studio Desktop: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0 … _Search=Go Conceptually, I would expect the git version to pull the most recent git version. It sounds like the preview version is so sort of pre-release.
I am confused about the difference between rstudio-desktop and rstudio-desktop-bin. Looking at the PKGBUILD, as the names suggest, the bin version seems to be pulling an already compiled binary while the non-bin version is building the binary from source. I have never seen this type of split before in the AUR and want to make sure I am not missing something. Do the two packages provide the same thing?
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#2 2020-04-13 14:10:29
- Trilby
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Re: What is the difference betwee the two rstudio packages?
Yes, those two packages provide the same version of the same software. And the primary difference is just that one comes pre-compiled. This is relatively common for packages that would be impractical to build on low-end hardware.
Another potential difference, though, is that the build / configure flags in the PKGBUILD of the non -bin package may be different from the flags / options used to build the -bin package. You can see what options are used in the former, but with the prebuilt binary, you just get whatever they give you.
"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman
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#3 2020-04-13 21:42:38
- eschwartz
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Re: What is the difference betwee the two rstudio packages?
The really big difference is that the -bin package comes from the RStudio developers who have provided a blessed binary artifact that they guarantee should work, and which comes bundled with its own copy of Qt5 instead of using the system one.
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#4 2020-04-13 22:10:50
- Trilby
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Re: What is the difference betwee the two rstudio packages?
The really big difference is that the -bin package comes from the RStudio developers who have provided a blessed binary artifact that they guarantee should work, and which comes bundled with its own copy of Qt5 instead of using the system one.
"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman
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#5 2020-04-13 22:34:26
- eschwartz
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Re: What is the difference betwee the two rstudio packages?
lol, indeed.
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