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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 07:41:15
Message-Id: 20161017094057.2deebcab.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds by "William L. Thomson Jr."
1 On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 03:37:28 -0400
2 "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Monday, October 17, 2016 8:57:30 AM EDT Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:30:44 -0400
6 > >
7 > > "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote:
8 > > > Part of the idea is to help differentiate the types of binaries in tree to
9 > > > hopefully get less binaries that are from source.
10 > > >
11 > > > To start I just wanted to see about a policy for -bin, the other stuff was
12 > > > just extra after -bin itself was a policy. Unless it made sense to develop
13 > > > it in full,
14 > > >
15 > > > -bin - Closed source binary ebuild
16 > > > -ebin - Self made binary from source
17 > > > -sbin - Binary ebuild of an open source package
18 > >
19 > > Let's also add -c for C programs, and -cxx for C++ programs. -py for
20 > > pure Python stuff, -cpy when stuff includes extensions compiled in C,
21 > > -cxxpy extensions in C++. We should also have special -x86asm suffix
22 > > for packages that rely on non-portable x86 assembly, or maybe even
23 > > -x86asm-sse when they use some fancy instruction sets. And then don't
24 > > forget to add a suffix for license, for GUI library (because obviously
25 > > nobody wants GTK+ software on KDE systems, nor GTK+3 software on GTK+
26 > > systems).
27 >
28 > Clearly being sarcastic as a binary is a binary. It doesn't matter what
29 > language, toolkit etc.
30
31 It doesn't matter for you. It may matter for others. Much like having
32 binary signaled in name may not matter to others. Which is why in-band
33 signaling is a bad idea.
34
35 --
36 Best regards,
37 Michał Górny
38 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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