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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy for binary-only ebuilds.
From:       Donnie Berkholz <spyderous () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2004-04-28 19:05:10
Message-ID: 1083179110.800.2.camel () localhost
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On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 14:11, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 April 2004 05:01, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 April 2004 11:49 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > > After running into an ebuild that installs a binary-only package into
> > > /usr, I thought it shouldn't be done, but decided to check our developer
> > > docs anyway.
> >
> > yeah, /opt is where binary-only packages go ... a few times we've gone
> > against this, usually because it's easier (for example, winex-transgaming)
> > -mike
> 
> Only works if the binary-only package doesn't expect to be in /usr :(  NX (for 
> example) expects to be in /usr/NX, and I'm not sure what we can do about 
> that.

Whine upstream. =)
-- 
Donnie Berkholz
Gentoo Linux

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