On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote:
While discussing the issue in #-releng, it was also suggested that a
news item should be prepared, to inform users that they cannot rely on
USE=bindist. (They cannot rely on it already now, though.) Does it
make sense to
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, Alexis Ballier wrote:
from the rest of your email, I understand that RESTRICT=bindist is
eapi0 (or even not covered by eapi?), right?
is there any information on RESTRICT=bindist ? with these 150
packages using it, this sounds like something well known that I had
never
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 22:12:07 +0100
Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote:
Hi,
We currently have two mechanisms to influence building of packages
that cannot be binary redistributed. Some 150 packages have
RESTRICT=bindist (unconditional, or USE conditional), whereas
27 packages have the
Hi,
We currently have two mechanisms to influence building of packages
that cannot be binary redistributed. Some 150 packages have
RESTRICT=bindist (unconditional, or USE conditional), whereas
27 packages have the bindist flag in their IUSE. Until very recently,
the two sets were practically
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 10:12:07PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
So a few days ago I filed bug 541408 and dependent bugs, with the goal
that ebuilds with the bindist flag in their IUSE should also add
RESTRICT=!bindist? ( bindist ). However, it turned out that some 10
packages are using the
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, Robin H Johnson wrote:
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 10:12:07PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
However, it turned out that some 10 packages are using the bindist
flag only in REQUIRED_USE but nowhere else [2] (with foo being some
feature flag):
IUSE=bindist foo
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote:
IMHO, the bindist USE flag is redundant in these cases. So we should
get rid of the REQUIRED_USE and add a restriction instead:
IUSE=foo
RESTRICT=foo? ( bindist )
What do you think? Should we proceed in this
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote:
IMHO, the bindist USE flag is redundant in these cases. So we should
get rid of the REQUIRED_USE and add a restriction instead:
IUSE=foo
