On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 23:30:37 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:

> Meanwhile, having buildpkg on virtual packages[1] is what amuses me.  
> There, most of the benefits of binpkgs that arguably apply even to 
> prebuilt binary and no-bin packages as long as they package and
> install /some/ file, arguably don't apply at all, tho I suppose there
> might be corner cases where they /could/.  

That is two other cases I did not think of, thanks for mentioning.

 - virtual ebuilds
 - meta ebuilds

binpkgs of those do not make much sense.

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William L. Thomson Jr.