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On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> IMHO, the bindist USE flag is redundant in these cases. So we should |
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> get rid of the REQUIRED_USE and add a restriction instead: |
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> IUSE="foo" |
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> RESTRICT="foo? ( bindist )" |
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> What do you think? Should we proceed in this direction? |
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I like it. I think you should proceed. |
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I proposed a relevant change for www-client/chromium in a previous thread. |
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> While discussing the issue in #-releng, it was also suggested that a |
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> news item should be prepared, to inform users that they cannot rely on |
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> USE=bindist. (They cannot rely on it already now, though.) Does it |
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> make sense to have a news item for this? |
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> Ulrich |
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> [1] We also have some 300 packages that are mirror restricted but not |
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> bindist restricted. It is likely that at least for part of them |
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> binaries cannot be redistributed either. That is a separate issue, |
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> though. |
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> [2] Thanks to aballier for pointing this out in bug 541588. |
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