On 2025-02-28, Eli Schwartz <eschwa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Back in the day, libreoffice-bin was a version of libreoffice that was > built by Gentoo developers against Gentoo packages, and hosted as a > prebuilt tarball. It required specific dependency versions of various > things.
Yep. > Since the official binhost introduction -- which automatically builds > app-office/liberoffice for gnome and KDE profiles -- there is decreased > value in pre-building it manually like this. At the same time, the > maintainers started thinking about using the upstream Libreoffice > prebuilt binaries (which are good for various use cases such as testing > a bug report against a baseline that libreoffice developers can compare > with). It's actually pretty common that most *-bin packages are about > upstream prebuilt binaries. > > So basically what happened is that libreoffice-bin now bundles all its > dependencies. I take it that "the maintainers started thinking about" using upstream binaries means they aren't actually doing it yet. So the Gentoo maintainers are still building the binaries but have started bundling all the dependencies? -- Grant
