From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4938 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2004 16:23:58 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 14 Aug 2004 16:23:58 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bw1K2-0004L5-4G for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:23:58 +0000 Received: (qmail 5458 invoked by uid 89); 14 Aug 2004 16:23:57 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 16930 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2004 16:23:56 +0000 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:23:54 +0200 From: Marius Mauch To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-Id: <20040814182354.2d7b7b6c@andy.genone.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20040814141754.GA11824@localhost> References: <20040814141754.GA11824@localhost> Organization: Gentoo Linux X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: H@&[wkk?l:Zx:8i_5bViK&{Vz{c{~r),^&:v/r#+X5dmfA6qCl)~'Ul{"&06Q1[05.%v&c>je5R{=xLnx^=~lN~rO0xuR~~NY)CX\"Nc4$9CBPwDl-.pYuVeGdir86L@\:j?7@%Ej2?Wi-Y0=1]T14ce0w79Bckk[*ti{;iA"{;I}&E~.msRBsBS)N!CS4Gd|_UR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:7e6c91d1b14dbccceb2f2166522fa0f6 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Add new variable BINARY_KEYWORDS for binary support? X-Archives-Salt: 11a38441-8b20-4c30-90d2-c23e25a214c3 X-Archives-Hash: aed0834762f49e1f2430ad076f492431 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list