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+# unison-upstream-bin
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+This is unison packaged using the binaries provided from upstream.
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+The main differences with respect to the official unison package are that:
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+- unison does not incorporate the downstream patch that is provided by arch
+- unison is compiled using the stable version of OCaml (4.14.x)
+
+You may want to install this package rather than the official one in case you
+encounter stability problems that may be caused by the still somehow
+experimental state of the OCaml 5.x compiler used by arch.