On 07/15/20 07:01, Andreas Fink wrote:
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Searching for -bin does not help to find binary only packages. Two more
examples, which are binary only:
zoom, skypeforlinux
Searching for -bin mostly (if not always) implies that there would be a
possibility to compile it from source.
In my experience so far, every binary-only package does not have an open
source license. So mostly you'll hit a license issue and you have to
accept the license (/etc/portage/package.license) before you will be
able to merge the package. Any license issue should start make you
thinking what is going on, since it is a potential binary-only package.
Installation of these packages is inhibited by emerge, because you have
to accept the license first ;)
When I look into my /etc/portage/package.license file I get a good idea
of which packages are binary only. Not all of them are pure binary
packages, but it is a superset as far as I can tell.
To conclude: You cannot find out if a package is binary only with
emerge. You have to do the research yourself, but
/etc/portage/package.license is a good starting point to find potential
candidates.
Cheers
Andreas
Yes, the license issue came up, and I pavlov-wise put the exception in.
I repressed the suspicion that I shouldn't be doing that.
Thank you.
Is there an open-source way to view the contents of a rar archive?
