Portage convention confirmation *-bin

driftwood · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 37

Hi,

I just wish to confirm if this is indeed a convention. Packages that are binary and not source are named *-bin, eg. mozilla-firefox-bin is binary and mozilla-firefox is source?

Thanks

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject:

Usually. At least it fits the pattern for all the packages I've seen so far.

Genone · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject:

If a source package exists as well then this is the convention. If only a binary version exists the -bin is optional and omitted in most cases.

driftwood · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 37

cool, thanks.