Re: [gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

2025-02-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 11 February 2025 23:04:49 Greenwich Mean Time Mickaël Bucas wrote: > I recently converted a fully locally *slowly* built machine to a mixed > prebuilt/local build > Of the 1857 packages on this machine, 1056 are now using prebuilt > packages and the others are local builds > USE flags a

Re: [gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

2025-02-11 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 2/11/25 7:37 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> If you aren't dealing with a broken mirror (bytemark was outright >> dropping some directories via rsync!) then it's just a matter of time. >> The binhost starts up at around 5am each day, runs for a bit, and >> publishes all packages for the day. I usua

Re: [gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

2025-02-11 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 2/11/25 6:04 PM, Mickaël Bucas wrote: > 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 > > There're a few like this, compiled by Gentoo : > app-office/

Re: [gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

2025-02-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 11 February 2025 17:26:29 Greenwich Mean Time Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 2/11/25 12:06 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

2025-02-11 Thread Mickaël Bucas
Le mer. 12 févr. 2025 à 00:04, Mickaël Bucas a écrit : > > Le mar. 11 févr. 2025 à 18:07, Peter Humphrey 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 em

Re: [gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

2025-02-11 Thread Mickaël Bucas
Le mar. 11 févr. 2025 à 18:07, Peter Humphrey 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

2025-02-11 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 2/11/25 12:06 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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. Ok yeah that is a nasty problem unfo

Re: [gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

2025-02-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
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 > *

Re: [gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

2025-02-11 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 2/11/25 10:22 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > I was delighted to see Gentoo's venture into prebuilt packages, having two > small machines here. However, experience has rubbed some of the shine off. > > Any time I update the system, if there's no package with the right USE flags, >

[gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

2025-02-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, I was delighted to see Gentoo's venture into prebuilt packages, having two small machines here. However, experience has rubbed some of the shine off. Any time I update the system, if there's no package with the right USE flags, or even no package at all, I've built from source in the