On 21-01-2022 11:29:54 +0100, Peter Böhm wrote: > Dear Developers, > > I like your goal to make Gentoo more user-friendly but Gentoo is a source > based distribution and I dont like binary versions as a default. My question > is: > > Who has problems with "big" packages like rust or firefox ? > > Only User which doesnt know there is a binary version. So, in every case we > need to describe it in our AMD64 handbook. > > Am Freitag, 21. Januar 2022, 10:22:14 CET schrieb Mart Raudsepp: > > Anyhow, my vote is to default to rust-bin - people can easily be told > > to move to dev-lang/rust at their convenience and then explicitly > > depclean rust-bin. > > I am dreaming about another solution where this is not needed: > > In our /etc/portage/make.conf we can have a new: > > MAKEBIN="rust firefox" > > ... resulting in an automatic switch to the binary version of all included > packages ... of course this is also as recommendation in our AMD64 handbook > (with a clue to delete it if not desired).
or ... if we could have Portage check the requirements for building a package, and if it cannot be met, that it tries to resolve the || case, which would be the -bin variant in this case. Not sure if the information is available to Portage at dependency resolution time though. Fabian > > Kind reagards, > Peter > > > > -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
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