Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy for binary-only ebuilds.

[Stuart Herbert]

On Wednesday 28 April 2004 05:01, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 April 2004 11:49 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > After running into an ebuild that installs a binary-only package into
> > /usr, I thought it shouldn't be done, but decided to check our developer
> > docs anyway.
>
> yeah, /opt is where binary-only packages go ... a few times we've gone
> against this, usually because it's easier (for example, winex-transgaming)
> -mike

Only works if the binary-only package doesn't expect to be in /usr :(  NX (for 
example) expects to be in /usr/NX, and I'm not sure what we can do about 
that.

Best regards,
Stu
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