* John Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:12, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > * Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > I've masked net-im/aim, AOL's proprietary offering. It hasn't seen a > > > release in years, it's binary-only, and it's far less capable than any > > > other client out there. > > > > BTW: could be introduce an separate (optional) masking method > > for such proprietary stuff ? > > > I believe (don't have time to check right now) you'll want to > look into ACCEPT_LICENSE
Not necessarily. Licenses are not the only reason why someone likes to kick off binary-only packages. Also matters of stability, binary compatibility performance, etc. For example an statically-linked package (not compiled by gentoo devs) can introduce stability issues on hardly optimized systems, ie. libc w/o old ABIs, trimmed calling convention (enforced register passing), etc, etc. There're lots of things which can be optimized that break the ABIs. Binary-Only packages have a large risk of failing here. As an power-user (whom I have to be to know how to actually use these optimizations ;-)) I'd like to have a switch to kick 'em off or at least let emerge warn me. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
