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Windmill
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 Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 4:48 pm Post subject: bindist USE flag |
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| Can someone tell me what does the bindist USE flag do exactly? |
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szczerb
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| AFAIK it disables some branding (like icons and stuff) that license forbids to redistribute. I think the Firefox becomes Iceweasel with that, but I may be very wrong on all this... |
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Windmill
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not sure if I understood well. This flags works with various ebuild like kdelibs or firefox. If kdelibs is set with the bindist flag, what happens for example? |
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sebB
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | This flags works with various ebuild like kdelibs |
Nope
If you want to know what bindist do for an ebuild simply do
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| Code: | | equery u packagename |
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santy_in
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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It is a global flag which provides the option to enable/disable prebuilt GRP(Gentoo Reference Platform) packages. GRPs are actually snapshots of Gentoo Release. These packages are not the latest, it is given to users so that they could have a functional environment in less time while preserving the speed i.e. making the installation process faster to have a working environment. After that you can upgrade your system as you like while using these tools in the background. GRPs packages are available mostly for large packages like x11-org, mozilla etc.
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http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml
https://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.0/hb-install-about.xml |
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