What's the difference?
What's the difference?
Bin (Binary) versions of packages, as in the binary executable. Rather than compiling the software (which takes time and is flexible) download the final bin file (quicker to download and set up). Only available for some packages when someone else has compiled and made a release version of it.
call me a racoon then
absolutely the worst packages to build on Gentoo.
I give 0 fucks about clang and llvm, maybe I should switch those to bins, but then how will I know what is inside, when I can't check the source code even now?
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They would say, if they didn't forget to set the USE flags to enable ASCII support

e: forgot one
Recently had an issue with qt5-webengine not building, leading to stremio not updating. Every fix i tried i had to try to rebuild, only for it to fail until a glorious person posted a comment on its AUR page.
Also, fuck electron
fuck electron
On top of the compile, electron apps love to have conflicting electron version dependencies so after all of the compiling it fails on the install step (and then rolls back and fails and rolls back and fails) until you cancel it and cut out the offending packages with -Rdd before trying again.
Seems like the package manager could detect this and offer alternatives that are not failure states, like 'Hey, these two things will not update together do you want to leave them at the current version or only update one of them. Here are the package version combinations that will install: A, B, C. Pick one'. Resolving dependency problems is the whole entire job of package managers, after all...
me on gentoo:
qt-webengine π¬
^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C
Laughs in Gentoo. That's adorable!
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the main reason I started installing more "-bin" variants of packages
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