On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 06:33:05PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 21/04/2020 18:05, Gerion Entrup wrote: > > gentoo-kernel: ??? > > Unfortunately he didn't say anything about gentoo-kernel-bin. So... no idea.
gentoo-kernel-bin is, as its description on packages.gentoo.org would suggest: a pre-built kernel---hence the 'bin' suffix. This is not uncommon in Gentoo, c.f. www-client/firefox-bin or dev-java/gradle-bin. In fact, there are currently eighty-eight such packages in Portage. They're just provided for convenience, when people don't want to spend ages compiling some massive software on their fifteen-year-old C.P.U. In the case of Firefox, legal issues with enabling official branding can also sometimes concern the binary distribution. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA
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