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On Fri, 2007-31-08 at 16:31 +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote: |
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> Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>: |
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> > > While we are not distributing binaries, I could easily add a |
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> > > USE flag to enable it; the user compiles it himself, so it is all |
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> > > fine. But now regard the existence of binary hosts, are they |
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> > > distributions of then illegal binaries? |
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> > isn't bindist useflag made for this purpose ? |
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> Great. Thanks...so what is common practice? Should the ebuild die, |
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> telling people a feature will not be included or just exclude it with |
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> an ewarn only? |
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With bindist, you should just disable any non-distributable feature and |
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print a ewarn.. Dieing is not nice since its used to build the stages, |
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etc. |
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Olivier Crête |
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tester@g.o |
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