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