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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Open Question: The feasibility of a complete portage binhost
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:59:09
Message-Id: 3109150.ITJkMzAsRK@kailua
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Open Question: The feasibility of a complete portage binhost by Sam Bishop
1 Am Mittwoch 21 Januar 2015, 20:36:55 schrieb Sam Bishop:
2 > So I've been thinking crazy thoughts.
3 >
4 > Theoretically it can't be that hard to do a complete package binhost for
5 > gentoo.
6 >
7 > To be clear, when i say complete, Im referring to building, all
8 > versions of all ebuilds marked stable or unstable on amd64, with every
9 > combination of use flags.
10
11 Not enough. You will also have to build against every combination of
12 dependency subslots.
13
14 e.g., different poppler, boost, icu, perl and many more versions...
15
16 Which makes the task near impossible.
17
18 --
19 Andreas K. Huettel
20 Gentoo Linux developer
21 kde, council

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