On Tuesday 11 February 2025 16:02:04 Greenwich Mean Time Eli Schwartz wrote:
> emerge --getbinpkg is *already* a mixed prebuilt and home-grown system.
> And emerge --getbinpkgonly is a modification to getbinpkg that says you
> don't want a mixed system, you want exclusively prebuilt. Using the
> *only variant is a personal choice you aren't obligated to make.
...and I don't do that. It wouldn't work anyway. Firefox, for instance,
doesn't have a prebuilt package that would install here:
!!! The following binary packages have been ignored due to non matching USE:
[...]
=www-client/firefox-128.7.0 clang gnome-shell -hwaccel -l10n_en-GB
=www-client/firefox-128.7.0 clang gnome-shell -hwaccel -l10n_en-GB pgo -
pulseaudio -wayland
=www-client/firefox-128.7.0 clang gnome-shell -hwaccel -l10n_en-GB pgo -
wayland
=www-client/firefox-128.7.0 clang gnome-shell -hwaccel -l10n_en-GB pgo -
pulseaudio
=www-client/firefox-128.7.0 clang gnome-shell -hwaccel -l10n_en-GB pgo
=www-client/firefox-128.7.0 clang -hwaccel -l10n_en-GB
If I'm reading that right, anyone who has either hardware acceleration or en-
GB localisation set has to compile it himself. I can switch off the hwaccel but
I'm not willing to use the US variant of English.
> You haven't actually provided details about why you think there's a
> problem though. You have said:
>
> - if there are no packages available for your configuration, you have
> "built from source in the traditional way", which emerge already does
> *automatically* unless you explicitly tell it not to. Should I be
> concluding from here that you first tried the *only variant, then when
> that failed you disabled fetching binary packages altogether in a fit
> of frustration?
The problem seems to be that portage knows when a requested prebuilt package
exists at gentoo.org, but over here the local mirrors take time to catch up.
Perhaps I'm just causing trouble by trying to work around that latency myself.
I've just tried using distfiles.gentoo.org instead, and it looks promising.
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Regards,
Peter.
