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From: "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Prevent binary/non-compiled packages from binary package creation
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 02:06:37
Message-Id: assp.0396207530.20170810220625.7f365014@o-sinc.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Prevent binary/non-compiled packages from binary package creation by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 23:30:37 +0000 (UTC)
2 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
3
4 > Meanwhile, having buildpkg on virtual packages[1] is what amuses me.
5 > There, most of the benefits of binpkgs that arguably apply even to
6 > prebuilt binary and no-bin packages as long as they package and
7 > install /some/ file, arguably don't apply at all, tho I suppose there
8 > might be corner cases where they /could/.
9
10 That is two other cases I did not think of, thanks for mentioning.
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12 - virtual ebuilds
13 - meta ebuilds
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15 binpkgs of those do not make much sense.
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18 William L. Thomson Jr.