Bug 911825

Summary:	don't make binpkgs for acct-user/* acct-group/* or virtual/*
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Michael Jones <gentoo>
Component:	Binary packages support	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885827 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542480
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael Jones 2023-08-07 02:24:41 UTC

There are no savings to be gained by installing a binpkg of packages in these catagories versus merging the ebuild normally.

Perhaps a new flag that an ebuild can set to inhibit making a binpkg of itself?

to work around this, i've taken to adding the following to my make.conf

EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="${EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS} --buildpkg-exclude 'virtual/* sys-kernel/*-sources */*-bin acct-user/* acct-group/*'"

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2023-08-07 02:29:39 UTC

You'd then break usepkgonly.

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2023-08-07 02:30:41 UTC

It's somewhat related to the idea in bug 885827 combined with bindist.