Dear Developers, I like your goal to make Gentoo more user-friendly but Gentoo is a source based distribution and I dont like binary versions as a default. My question is:
Who has problems with "big" packages like rust or firefox ? Only User which doesnt know there is a binary version. So, in every case we need to describe it in our AMD64 handbook. Am Freitag, 21. Januar 2022, 10:22:14 CET schrieb Mart Raudsepp: > Anyhow, my vote is to default to rust-bin - people can easily be told > to move to dev-lang/rust at their convenience and then explicitly > depclean rust-bin. I am dreaming about another solution where this is not needed: In our /etc/portage/make.conf we can have a new: MAKEBIN="rust firefox" ... resulting in an automatic switch to the binary version of all included packages ... of course this is also as recommendation in our AMD64 handbook (with a clue to delete it if not desired). Kind reagards, Peter
