On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 18:01 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I want to know what, if any, information about the package's build > environment is stored in the package binary and what, if any, of the > information is used by portage/emerge to decide when to use a binary > package. > > I've got a suspision that emerge/portage just matches based on package > name/version, this makes binary packaging much less useful, IMHO.
Based on my experience, the use flag for binaries does not propagate. Hence, if you use a pre-built binary and you don't like the USE flag, used, it's not gonna be helpful to you. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think those binary packages propagate into /var/db as well. (IF they do, I think they might not reflect the actual USE flags used to built the binary. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:02:29 up 2 days, 8:47, 8 users, load average: 1.68, 1.84, 1.63 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
