On 10/14/2016 07:17 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> On Friday, October 14, 2016 1:09:25 PM EDT Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
>> On 14/10/16 01:05 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
>>> Problem
>>> 2. There are binary packages that end in -bin, which is good. However it
>>> is
>>> not clear if that is an upstream 3rd party binary. Or a binary made by
>>> compiling a large Gentoo package, by a Gentoo dev or contributor on a
>>> Gentoo system. Like icedtea-bin for example, and likely some others.
>>
>> Is there a reason that this differentiation would matter?
> 
> In my opinion yes, the following reasons at minimum

Wouldn't it make more sense to include information on this in
metadata.xml rather than specifying it in the package name?

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