From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-im/aim masked for removal
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:49:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060803154933.GB19696@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608021618.08898.electronerd@electronerdia.net>
* John Myers <electronerd@electronerdia.net> schrieb:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:12, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > * Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> schrieb:
> > > I've masked net-im/aim, AOL's proprietary offering. It hasn't seen a
> > > release in years, it's binary-only, and it's far less capable than any
> > > other client out there.
> >
> > BTW: could be introduce an separate (optional) masking method
> > for such proprietary stuff ?
> >
> I believe (don't have time to check right now) you'll want to
> look into ACCEPT_LICENSE
Not necessarily. Licenses are not the only reason why someone
likes to kick off binary-only packages. Also matters of stability,
binary compatibility performance, etc.
For example an statically-linked package (not compiled by gentoo devs)
can introduce stability issues on hardly optimized systems, ie.
libc w/o old ABIs, trimmed calling convention (enforced register passing),
etc, etc. There're lots of things which can be optimized that break
the ABIs. Binary-Only packages have a large risk of failing here.
As an power-user (whom I have to be to know how to actually use
these optimizations ;-)) I'd like to have a switch to kick 'em off
or at least let emerge warn me.
cu
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2006-07-31 16:47 [gentoo-dev] net-im/aim masked for removal Donnie Berkholz
2006-08-02 23:12 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-08-02 23:18 ` John Myers
2006-08-03 1:13 ` Thomas Cort
2006-08-03 15:49 ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2006-08-02 23:18 ` Donnie Berkholz
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