Re: [gentoo-dev] Should mirror restriction imply bindist restriction?

[Alec Warner]

So years ago, we had GRP (the Gentoo Reference Platform.) My understanding
of USE=bindist was that when building packages whose binaries were illegal
to distribute, the build system would take some action. For instance, for a
while we were not allowed to brand a source build of firefox as firefox, so
debian made iceweasel and we ourselves add USE=bindist so we could build
custom builds and replacing the branding.

I'm not sure RESTRICT=bindist actually does anything. My guess is that the
intention of the restriction is to warn users that when building binaries
packages of a given package, there are 'legal issues' with such
distribution. That being said, as some have noted in the thread, the legal
issues are diverse and are unlikely to be covered in one flag.

-A


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:

> Currently RESTRICT=mirror and RESTRICT=bindist are independent of each
> other. I wonder if the former should imply the latter.
>
> Is there any package where the files in SRC_URI cannot be mirrored
> (i.e., redistributed), but where the built package can be distributed?
>
> Ulrich
>
>