From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F314D1384B4 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:14:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 010CB21C040; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:14:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 060DB21C003 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.191] (ipservice-092-214-197-095.092.214.pools.vodafone-ip.de [92.214.197.95]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: chithanh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AFE6834087C for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:14:37 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Need clear semantics for packages with binary entities To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20151228182414.GB4303@web> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Ch=c3=ad-Thanh_Christopher_Nguy=e1=bb=85n?= X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1210 Message-ID: <56847355.6080504@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 01:14:13 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151228182414.GB4303@web> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 6a8d8269-dc50-4b05-896d-f5f51e88edad X-Archives-Hash: d22139dcbb3647ccc15a2a010e81aadd -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 trupanka@gmail.com schrieb: | I’m suffering from the fact that users can distinguish packages | containing binaries just by eye. There is no mechanism to allow/ignore | such packages. | 7. to be continued... I guess 7. fonts which come precompiled instead of being built from source (e.g. through fontforge) 8. artwork which is pre-rendered to bitmap formats but originally sourced from vector graphics (e.g. KDE icons) 9. packages which download additional binary things later (Android SDK, hplip depending on your printer) 10. documentation which is downloaded as PDF but not as DocBook/TeX/... sources 11. ... (I'm sure there are more) | I wonder if Gentoo’s devs can do something with the problem. I think | it’s problem in source-based Linux distribution. I believe that Debian uses the term "preferred form for modification" to describe/categorize their builds in that regard. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlaEc1UACgkQ+gvH2voEPRCi6QCeNFoY/NWU0zXqf8B/F2tm1ZaB y7QAni7MdYwoOQHn/1xQd8x2lsB5zc4n =yQrF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----