On Monday, October 17, 2016 8:57:30 AM EDT Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:30:44 -0400 > > "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote: > > Part of the idea is to help differentiate the types of binaries in tree to > > hopefully get less binaries that are from source. > > > > To start I just wanted to see about a policy for -bin, the other stuff was > > just extra after -bin itself was a policy. Unless it made sense to develop > > it in full, > > > > -bin - Closed source binary ebuild > > -ebin - Self made binary from source > > -sbin - Binary ebuild of an open source package > > Let's also add -c for C programs, and -cxx for C++ programs. -py for > pure Python stuff, -cpy when stuff includes extensions compiled in C, > -cxxpy extensions in C++. We should also have special -x86asm suffix > for packages that rely on non-portable x86 assembly, or maybe even > -x86asm-sse when they use some fancy instruction sets. And then don't > forget to add a suffix for license, for GUI library (because obviously > nobody wants GTK+ software on KDE systems, nor GTK+3 software on GTK+ > systems).
Clearly being sarcastic as a binary is a binary. It doesn't matter what language, toolkit etc. -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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