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From: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: How to handle x86/amd64 only packages on other arches
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:46:23 +0100
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:01:20 -0600
Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote:

> I need to be able to have ppc/arm/etc users install a package that can
> only be built on x86/amd64. The packages in question are
> sys-apps/seabios and sys-apps/vgabios. The point is that a PPC machine
> that's using qemu-system-x86_64 still needs to use seabios and
> vgabios. I was planning on building the package on my own hardware and
> posting up sys-apps/seabios-bin and sys-apps/vgabios-bin unless of
> course someone has a better suggestion.

Yes, -bin seem to be the best solution. Otherwise, we'd have to require
some kind of portage-capable cross-toolchain for that package.

I'd suggest you *DEPEND on it through:
	|| ( sys-apps/seabios sys-apps/seabios-bin )

so that x86 users could still choose the binary package for some reason.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
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