Bug 667594

Summary:	dev-util/electron-bin new ebuild
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Leho Kraav (:macmaN @lkraav) <leho>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein, treecleaner
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PMASKED
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Deadline:	2020-04-29

Description Leho Kraav (:macmaN @lkraav) 2018-10-02 17:32:16 UTC

From https://bugs.gentoo.org/649310

Based on
https://gitlab.com/chaoslab/chaoslab-overlay/tree/master/dev-util/electron-bin

* should `electron` and `electron-bin` block each other, for any version?

* is it technically possible to have both simultaneously installed? What would be an example use case? We should probably not bother supporting complicated uber-edge use cases.

* based on expert evaluation, what items of work would be needed for adopting Chaos overlay `electron-bin` into the main tree?

Comment 1 Elvis Pranskevichus 2018-10-03 02:51:32 UTC

> should `electron` and `electron-bin` block each other, for any version?

They don't have to.  Presumably, the "-bin" variant would be installed to "/opt".

> is it technically possible to have both simultaneously installed? What would be an example use case?

See above.

> based on expert evaluation, what items of work would be needed for adopting Chaos overlay `electron-bin` into the main tree?

Teaching app-eselect/eselect-electron to support the binary alternative would probably be enough.  app-editors/atom could then be switched to depend on either the source or the binary version.