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On 2/28/25 12:05 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2025-02-28, Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> wrote:
Back in the day, libreoffice-bin was a version of libreoffice that was
built by Gentoo developers against Gentoo packages, and hosted as a
prebuilt tarball. It required specific dependency versions of various
things.
Yep.
Since the official binhost introduction -- which automatically builds
app-office/liberoffice for gnome and KDE profiles -- there is decreased
value in pre-building it manually like this. At the same time, the
maintainers started thinking about using the upstream Libreoffice
prebuilt binaries (which are good for various use cases such as testing
a bug report against a baseline that libreoffice developers can compare
with). It's actually pretty common that most *-bin packages are about
upstream prebuilt binaries.
So basically what happened is that libreoffice-bin now bundles all its
dependencies.
I take it that "the maintainers started thinking about" using upstream binaries means they aren't actually doing it yet. So the Gentoo
maintainers are still building the binaries but have started bundling
all the dependencies?
No.
libreoffice-bin-24.2.7.2 is Gentoo-built binaries with system deps.
libreoffice-bin-24.8.4 is libreoffice upstream binaries. So is 25.x
All three are available in ::gentoo right now. Only the first two are
stable.
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Eli Schwartz
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