Re: [gentoo-dev] Add new variable BINARY_KEYWORDS for binary support?

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

On 08/14/04  pclouds wrote:

> Hi
> I noticed there are some binary ebuilds with suffix "-bin" such as
> openoffice-bin. I'd propose adding a new variable BINARY_KEYWORDS into
> openoffice ebuild and remove openoffice-bin ebuild.
> The syntax of BINARY_KEYWORDS is as same as KEYWORDS. When people
> prefer binary ebuilds, they can do 
> BINARY_KEYWORDS="x86" emerge something
> and emerge will do install a tbz2.
> When a maintainer decide to add binary support for some arch, they add
> new archs to BINARY_KEYWORDS. We may need BINARY_SRC_URI also for tbz2
> files. 
> We may also form binary arch herds just like arch herds  :)
> Is this possible?

Ehm, why?
This won't work as binary packages usually have a completely different
way of installation (how many binary packages use `./configure; make;
make install` ?), so you'd also need different src_compile and
src_install functions which basically means there is no benefit at all.

Marius

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