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On 15 March 2015 at 23:15, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Emanuele Rusconi <emarsk@×××××.com> |
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> 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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> -- |
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> Rich |
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I understand the convenience of having an ebuild to distribute commonly |
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used software like flash, especially from a distribution POV, but the |
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question still goes unanswered: why does HE want an ebuild to install a |
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.deb package? |
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Anyway, http://gpo.zugaina.org/ shows no results, and I'm not aware of |
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any better resource to find ebuilds. Also, I never used or heard of that |
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software, so I'm afraid I have no answers, only questions. |
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