On 15 March 2015 at 23:15, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Emanuele Rusconi <ema...@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.
