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* John Myers <electronerd@×××××××××××××.net> schrieb: |
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> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:12, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> > * Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> schrieb: |
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> > > I've masked net-im/aim, AOL's proprietary offering. It hasn't seen a |
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> > > release in years, it's binary-only, and it's far less capable than any |
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> > > other client out there. |
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> > |
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> > BTW: could be introduce an separate (optional) masking method |
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> > for such proprietary stuff ? |
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> > |
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> I believe (don't have time to check right now) you'll want to |
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> look into ACCEPT_LICENSE |
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Not necessarily. Licenses are not the only reason why someone |
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likes to kick off binary-only packages. Also matters of stability, |
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binary compatibility performance, etc. |
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For example an statically-linked package (not compiled by gentoo devs) |
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can introduce stability issues on hardly optimized systems, ie. |
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libc w/o old ABIs, trimmed calling convention (enforced register passing), |
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etc, etc. There're lots of things which can be optimized that break |
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the ABIs. Binary-Only packages have a large risk of failing here. |
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As an power-user (whom I have to be to know how to actually use |
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these optimizations ;-)) I'd like to have a switch to kick 'em off |
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or at least let emerge warn me. |
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Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
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http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
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Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
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http://patches.metux.de/ |
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