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Bug 518122 - PMS does not specify the format of binpkgs
Summary: PMS does not specify the format of binpkgs
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 672672
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification: Unclassified
Component: PMS/EAPI (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Package Manager Specification
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Reported: 2014-07-25 17:54 UTC by Julian Ospald
Modified: 2021-08-31 10:49 UTC (History)
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Description Julian Ospald 2014-07-25 17:54:36 UTC 
I don't think it makes sense to specify the exact format of ebuilds which is designed with binpkgs in mind, but then omit the specification of those binpkgs.

Package Managers have already incompatible binpkg formats.
Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2014-07-25 18:01:55 UTC 
If we're going to spec a binpkg format, let's design a decent one... There's no point speccing Portage's current format.
Comment 2 Julian Ospald 2015-10-26 01:39:08 UTC 
One thing that users have repeatedly asked for are binpkgs with different USE flag combinations, as in: app-misc/foo-1.2[bar] and app-misc/foo-1.2[-bar] at once.

Afais, even pbins don't allow that, unless you install into different e format repositories.
Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2015-10-26 03:06:55 UTC 
(In reply to Julian Ospald (hasufell) from comment #2)
> One thing that users have repeatedly asked for are binpkgs with different
> USE flag combinations, as in: app-misc/foo-1.2[bar] and
> app-misc/foo-1.2[-bar] at once.

Since portage-2.2.19 this is supported when FEATURES=binpkg-multi-instance is enabled (bug 150031).
Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2021-08-31 10:49:41 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 672672 ***