On 2025-02-28, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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?
I guess I misinterpreted what you wrote. Looking at the source URI for the 24.8 ebuild, it appears to be the upstream pre-built binary .deb package, while the 24.4 source URI points to one of the Gentoo dev's personal sites. Not only did they start thinking about it, they did it. :) Hopefully, it's less work for them this way. -- Grant
