Re: [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds

[M. J. Everitt]

On 17/10/16 08:41, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> On Monday, October 17, 2016 9:17:48 AM EDT Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> But seriously, what has become of the package tags proposal? It seems
>> to me that it would fit some of the things suggested previously in
>> this thread.
>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Antarus/Package_Tags
> That is interesting, but I think is aiming to solve a different problemt. Plus
> it is not requiring any sort of policy that binary ebuilds end in -bin. Which
> is the main idea. The rest was more icing.
>
> To be clear I would suggest at MOST 3, -bin, -ebin, and -sbin. NO more.
>
I don't see what problem you are trying to solve. Gentoo is a
source-based distro .. any binaries are a last-resort or most certainly
should be. Having a policy may be useful, but I see no proposition on
this thread yet?