Re: [gentoo-dev] Add new variable BINARY_KEYWORDS for binary support?

[pclouds]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 06:23:54PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> On 08/14/04  pclouds wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > I noticed there are some binary ebuilds with suffix "-bin" such as
> > openoffice-bin. I'd propose adding a new variable BINARY_KEYWORDS into
> > openoffice ebuild and remove openoffice-bin ebuild.
> > The syntax of BINARY_KEYWORDS is as same as KEYWORDS. When people
> > prefer binary ebuilds, they can do
> > BINARY_KEYWORDS="x86" emerge something
> > and emerge will do install a tbz2.
> > When a maintainer decide to add binary support for some arch, they add
> > new archs to BINARY_KEYWORDS. We may need BINARY_SRC_URI also for tbz2
> > files.
> > We may also form binary arch herds just like arch herds  :)
> > Is this possible?
>
> Ehm, why?
> This won't work as binary packages usually have a completely different
> way of installation (how many binary packages use `./configure; make;
> make install` ?), so you'd also need different src_compile and
> src_install functions which basically means there is no benefit at
> all.

It won't use "./configure;make;make install". When you want to
install binary packages, it will fetch the corresponding tbz2 and
install it. src_compile, src_install and others are ignored.

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