From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 18:15:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_k51=y4E6QO2_vHkvPbTgRqRb=GV5EeEgG1aV2ajxdsUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPife4=BknT2cWQ-5PZW8GWAsh-B8TxkMNDJuH9tdFnwHMOBUg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Emanuele Rusconi <emarsk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's not open source, is it?
> Why do you want an ebuild to install a binary .deb file?
There aren't many of them, but there are ebuilds that install
proprietary binary files even in the main repository. One of the
advantages of Gentoo is that we actually can distribute ebuilds like
these without distributing the copyrighted binaries they are used to
install. Most other packaging systems put the files to be installed
in the same file as the metadata required to install them, which ends
up meaning that you can't distribute either.
That said, I have no idea if this particular program has been packaged
by anybody.
--
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-15 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-15 19:20 [gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr Mick
2015-03-15 22:03 ` Emanuele Rusconi
2015-03-15 22:15 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2015-03-15 22:35 ` Emanuele Rusconi
2015-03-16 1:48 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-16 6:28 ` Mick
2015-03-16 6:49 ` Matti Nykyri
2015-03-16 8:08 ` Mick
2015-03-20 19:59 ` Matti Nykyri
2015-03-27 23:02 ` Mick
2015-03-16 21:30 ` [gentoo-user] " James
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