There was a previous bug #63902 were people were asking for a wine-bin ebuild, but the reason were very different so I think it's better to create a new bug. I'm asking if there is the possibility to add a binary version of wine inside portage. Wine is a very big thing to compile, it requires a lot of compile-space and a lot of time too! I happen to need wine on an old machine to emulate some windows executables but I find very difficult to compile it because of space/time required. There is a -bin ebuild for many "big" programs like firefox, thunderbird, openoffice... I think it would be nice to see such an ebuild for wine too. There is a lot of binary packages that could be taken from here: http://www.winehq.org/site/download Reproducible: Always
If you prefer binary packages, you should find a distribution that doesn't compile things from source.
Just a stupid answer to a simple question. So why firefox-bin, openoffice-bin etc. ? I would have accepted an answer based on real problems (like "it is a hell to mantain binary version of wine", or "too few people requested this so it isn't a priority, sorry"), this sounds like "I don't care for user's needs and I'm lazy so I don't want to mantain another package", or better "now I'm not in the mood to listen to this kind of questions, go bother someone else". Next time be honest please.
> So why firefox-bin, openoffice-bin etc. ? As an exception (and firefox-bin is questionable given todays common hardware), and only because upstream provides binary releases. Please understand that Gentoo isn't and won't become a distribution doing binary packaging.
this is an acceptable answer thanks
