Le mer. 12 févr. 2025 à 00:04, Mickaël Bucas <mbu...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > Le mar. 11 févr. 2025 à 18:07, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> a écrit > : > > > > 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. > > > > I think Firefox is currently a special case, because there's also > www-client/firefox-bin which obviously is precompiled. > So prebuilt packages probably aren't built for www-client/firefox
I didn't read the output you provided : it clearly shows binary packages for www-client/firefox The main difference with the -bin package is on keywords : www-client/firefox-128.7.0 amd64 www-client/firefox-135.0 ~amd64 <= unstable www-client/firefox-bin-128.7.0 amd64 www-client/firefox-bin-135.0 amd64 <= stable > > -- > > Regards, > > Peter. > > Best regards > Mickaël
