On Thursday, 3 July 2025 16:50:47 British Summer Time Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 7/3/25 11:32 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Some time ago a method was posted of checking whether a particular Gentoo
> > binpkg was available, and I meant to make a note of it but forgot. I
> > haven't found the right search phrase to find it on my mail server,
> > either.
> >
> > Would someone remind me, please?
>
> emerge --getbinpkg {pkg}
>
> will print a message already, if there is NOT a binpackage for you but
> adding some package.use would cause a binpackage to be used.
Yes, but that's not what I meant. Someone, a dev I think, posted a specific
query that would check for a binpkg. I can't remember more detail, or I'd
include it.
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Regards,
Peter.
