Re: ARCH restriction for port of closed-source Linux software, looking for opinions

Quoting Felix Palmen <felix@palmen-it.de> (from Tue, 26 Jul 2022  
12:25:54 +0200):

> Case in question is, once again, multimedia/makemkv.
>
> For a long time, the distfiles contained binaries of the closed-source
> part for amd64 and i386 only, so naturally, the port had
>
> ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=		amd64 i386
>
> Now, upstream started adding binaries for armv7 and aarch64. From these,
> Linuxulator is only available on aarch64. Therefore the variable now
> looks like this:
>
> ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=		aarch64 amd64 i386
>
> This is, of course, exactly the default that USES=linux would set
> anyways. Now I'm unsure whether I should just drop it and go with the
> default?
>
> Pro: It's actually the availability of Linuxulator that results in the
> narrowest restriction now.
>
> Con: The upstream software *is* restricted regarding ARCHs and maybe
> this should stay being reflected.
>
> What would you think is the better way to go?

There is work underway to port the linuxulator to other  
architecture(s). I would suggest to keep the ONLY_FOR_ARCHS in the port.

Bye,
Alexander.

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