Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] making rust-bin ordered first in virtual/rust

[Fabian Groffen]

On 21-01-2022 11:29:54 +0100, Peter Böhm wrote:
> Dear Developers,
>
> I like your goal to make Gentoo more user-friendly but Gentoo is a source
> based distribution and I dont like binary versions as a default. My question
> is:
>
> Who has problems with "big" packages like rust or firefox ?
>
> Only User which doesnt know there is a binary version. So, in every case we
> need to describe it in our AMD64 handbook.
>
> Am Freitag, 21. Januar 2022, 10:22:14 CET schrieb Mart Raudsepp:
> > Anyhow, my vote is to default to rust-bin - people can easily be told
> > to move to dev-lang/rust at their convenience and then explicitly
> > depclean rust-bin.
>
> I am dreaming about another solution where this is not needed:
>
> In our /etc/portage/make.conf we can have a new:
>
> MAKEBIN="rust firefox"
>
> ... resulting in an automatic switch to the binary version of all included
> packages ... of course this is also as recommendation in our AMD64 handbook
> (with a clue to delete it if not desired).

or ... if we could have Portage check the requirements for building a
package, and if it cannot be met, that it tries to resolve the || case,
which would be the -bin variant in this case.

Not sure if the information is available to Portage at dependency
resolution time though.

Fabian

>
> Kind reagards,
> Peter
>
>
>
>

-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level