Re: [aur-general] pandoc in community vs. pandoc-bin

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com> 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