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On 09/08/17 04:20, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> On Tue, 8 Aug 2017 19:32:48 +0200 |
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> Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o> wrote: |
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>> - You might be applying local patches through /etc/portage/patches |
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>> that are distributed to all clients |
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> This might be the strongest reason. Though would only apply to stuff |
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> like say kernel sources. Not sure what patches could be applied to a |
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> binary ebuild, -bin. A patch would not effect src_install per my |
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> understanding. |
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There's also the fact that binpkgs may be manually installed exactly as |
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the package manager would have installed it, rather than extracting |
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whatever upstream supplies verbatim. This includes things like any |
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wrappers, desktop files or symlinks created by the ebuild, or other such |
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downstream-isms. |
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Sam Jorna (wraeth) |
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