# \[PITCH\] Support for binary dependencies

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-support-for-binary-dependencies/27620>\
**Category:** Package Manager\
**Created:** [August 5, 2019, 7:33am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-support-for-binary-dependencies/27620 "2019-08-05T07:33:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-support-for-binary-dependencies/27620/4 "2019-08-05T15:11:12Z")

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In spite of these challenges, many projects do successfully distributed precompiled Linux archives.

The intent here is that the condition language would grow large enough that someone who wanted to could vend a number of Linux archives (enough to support interested parties).

You are right that this doesn’t compose very well with the spirit of this proposal in that it doesn’t support a package being either a binary or source, but I still believe it has considerable value to Linux.

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