On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Javier Vasquez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Sorry for the question, but I'd like to understand if pandoc-bin in > AUR offers something the new pandoc in community doesn't. > > Before, there was no pandoc package under the repos, and there was no > really full solution but the pandoc-bin. However I'm wondering if > that's already covered by pandoc in community now. > > Thanks, > > -- > Javier > I believe *-bin packages are traditionally the upstream precompiled, standalone binaries. There should be no difference except that the *-bin package was tested upstream and is guaranteed to work, whereas the repository/AUR package is built against the system libs and stuff, and should work (but occasionally doesn't). -- Eli Schwartz
