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From: Alexander Berntsen <alexander@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Local bindist descriptions
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:07:51
Message-Id: 50E03C78.7040504@plaimi.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Local bindist descriptions by nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva)
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4 On 30/12/12 13:15, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
5 > I see his point that emerge will sort of imply what does bindist
6 > do, but it requires running emerge several times with different USE
7 > flag combinations, while just writing a small explanation wouldn't
8 > hurt and would save a lot of time.
9 You can't check in advance what's going on except for maybe reading
10 the ebuild. If you happen to have the constraints satisfied for some
11 reason, you will never even get an error. Furthermore, just *why* is
12 the constraint there? Patent infringement? Licence incompatibility?
13 Etc. ffmpeg is like the holy grail of local bindist descriptions.
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16 Alexander
17 alexander@××××××.net
18 http://plaimi.net/~alexander
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Local bindist descriptions Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>