prefer to use system binary if available

kevva / bin-wrapper

Binary wrapper that makes your programs seamlessly available as local dependencies

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prefer to use system binary if available #50

Closed torvitas closed 6 months ago

torvitas commented 7 years ago

Hi,

it were nice if bin wrapper would just use the systems binaries if available. This especially makes sense for alpine Linux where static compiled binaries often do not work.

Greetings, Sascha

ri0t commented 4 years ago

This has quite substantial (positive) consequences for arm64 and other platforms, imho. I strongly advise to add this functionality. There are some problems other people already mentioned, though:

Among them the possibility of many varying versions of binary packages, maybe restrictions on which versions would be available (e.g. on Debian).

Then again, i see this issue has last been touched end of 2017. Is this thing still on? If so, cheers! :champagne: :cake:

torvitas commented 4 years ago

Hi, I do not have any interest in this issue anymore, I wrote some code back then which is available as pull-request. Beware that this code still has issues that need to be solved which is why it never was merged.