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.