Re: [gentoo-dev] Need clear semantics for packages with binary entities

[Zac Medico]

On 12/28/2015 10:24 AM, trupanka@×××××.com wrote:
> I’m suffering from the fact that users can distinguish packages containing
> binaries just by eye. There is no mechanism to allow/ignore such packages.
> For license restrictions we have ‘package.license/’ whitelist.

We can use the PROPERTIES variable (or alternatively the RESTRICT
variable) to tag this information in the ebuild. Portage has a
ACCEPT_PROPERTIES configuration variable, and a package.properties file
that can be used to mask and unmask packages based on PROPERTIES. It
would be useful to be able to do this with "live" ebuilds too...
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Thanks,
Zac