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I make a lot of binaries for use on other systems, to expedite updates. |
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It does not make sense for some packages to ever be a binary package. |
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Packages like -bin packages or gentoo-sources, which are just sources. |
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Having binary ebuilds of those is of no benefit. I can be the opposite |
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causing things to be much slower. Like in the case of large things |
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packages like android-studio. |
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Just seems odd to make a binary of a binary, or repackage |
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gentoo-sources into a gentoo ebuild binary/binpkg. There is not really |
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any benefit either way for such packages. |
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It would be beneficial if ebuilds could have some internal variable |
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that prevents it from being a binary package. It should not prevent |
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merge or fail. Just never create a binary of this package, always use |
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the ebuild as normal. Even if someone is force installing using binary |
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flag or otherwise. |
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As most things I think this would require support in PMS, or next EAPI |
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at minimum. But I think the EAPI comes from PMS, so they are related. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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