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On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Emanuele Rusconi <emarsk@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> It's not open source, is it? |
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> Why do you want an ebuild to install a binary .deb file? |
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There aren't many of them, but there are ebuilds that install |
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proprietary binary files even in the main repository. One of the |
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advantages of Gentoo is that we actually can distribute ebuilds like |
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these without distributing the copyrighted binaries they are used to |
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install. Most other packaging systems put the files to be installed |
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in the same file as the metadata required to install them, which ends |
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up meaning that you can't distribute either. |
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That said, I have no idea if this particular program has been packaged |
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by anybody. |
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Rich |
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