Re: Why libreoffice4 and libreoffice4-bin?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 12 April 2014 16:25, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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).
>

On a amd64 host, what difference would be expected in terms of
performance and functionality, if any?

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Ottavio