On 2/28/25 12:05 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > 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?
No. libreoffice-bin-24.2.7.2 is Gentoo-built binaries with system deps. libreoffice-bin-24.8.4 is libreoffice upstream binaries. So is 25.x All three are available in ::gentoo right now. Only the first two are stable. -- Eli Schwartz
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