Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr

[Emanuele Rusconi <emarsk@gmail.com>]

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On 15 March 2015 at 23:15, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
I understand the convenience of having an ebuild to distribute commonly
used software like flash, especially from a distribution POV, but the
question still goes unanswered: why does HE want an ebuild to install a
.deb package?

Anyway, http://gpo.zugaina.org/ shows no results, and I'm not aware of
any better resource to find ebuilds. Also, I never used or heard of that
software, so I'm afraid I have no answers, only questions.

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