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I think of a gentoo "binary" package (e.g. oracle-jdk-bin) as an ebuild |
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that fetches a file from somewhere, then merely unpacks that file and |
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sticks the results in /opt/<whatever>. |
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My experience today with libreoffice-bin has broken my mental model of |
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how a gentoo "binary" package behaves. |
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While trying to debug some broken behavior in the (non-binary) localc |
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spreadsheet app, I decided to install libreoffice-bin as an experiment. |
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The libreoffice-bin package wanted to drag in dozens of other non-binary |
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gentoo packages before it would install itself, and even caused a blocker |
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between two different versions of poppler. (I said "no" because I thought |
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the blocker would make the entire experiment fail in the end.) |
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Any thoughts from you gentoo gurus would be most appreciated. |