[gentoo-user] Re: make.conf bindist

[James]

Rich Freeman <rich0 <at> gentoo.org> writes:


> <maffblaster <at> gentoo.org> wrote:
> > This is an excellent explanation of the flag. Will you give me
permission > > to  use it or re-word it for a wiki page concerning bindist?

This did fix my problems. Before Firefox was auto-named 'aurora' in the
lxde menu. Now, without bindist, the name changed to 'firefox'. I sure other
names changed, but I was focused on aurora-firefox so I did not save
a list..... I'm not sure if bindist changed the actual name of the
executable, as  'aurora' was always launched from the lxde menu, on that system.


> Certainly, do whatever you wish with it.
> It might even make sense to put a mention in the handbook.  This is
> the flag that probably comes closest to distinguishing between the
> Debian-like and Ubuntu-like experience as far as pure-FOSS licensing
> goes.  There are many who prefer each and with Gentoo you get your
> choice.


Gentoo-user is full of useful 'tidbits' of information. We rarely capture
those facts into the wiki. Any data_mining of gentoo_user
into the wiki would be keenly a wonderful idea, imho.

hth,
James