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Re: Why libreoffice4 and libreoffice4-bin?



Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> writes:

> From the perspective of somebody like me who prefers to install ready
> made binaries over compiling from source, I don't understand why to
> install libreoffice4-bin (a Linux binary) over libreoffice4, which is,
> too, available in binary.
>
> If a clear difference exists, it should be made clear in either the
> README.html or the DESCR file.

One is a package of a Linux binary, which runs on a very small set of
OS/cpu combinations.  The other is a normal package, built with our
tools for arbitrary platform/cpu combinations (some of which surely
don't work).

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