On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:30:44 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote:
> Part of the idea is to help differentiate the types of binaries in tree to > hopefully get less binaries that are from source. > > To start I just wanted to see about a policy for -bin, the other stuff was > just extra after -bin itself was a policy. Unless it made sense to develop it > in full, > > -bin - Closed source binary ebuild > -ebin - Self made binary from source > -sbin - Binary ebuild of an open source package Let's also add -c for C programs, and -cxx for C++ programs. -py for pure Python stuff, -cpy when stuff includes extensions compiled in C, -cxxpy extensions in C++. We should also have special -x86asm suffix for packages that rely on non-portable x86 assembly, or maybe even -x86asm-sse when they use some fancy instruction sets. And then don't forget to add a suffix for license, for GUI library (because obviously nobody wants GTK+ software on KDE systems, nor GTK+3 software on GTK+ systems). -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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