prefer to use system binary if available

[torvitas]

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]

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]

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.