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I've been running multilib-desktop profile for awhile, and the standard |
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multilib profile before it split into desktop and server. However, other |
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than grub, the only stuff I need multilib around for is multilib itself, |
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as I don't do binary only stuff and thus have little use for the 32-bit |
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side. Now the multilib stuff is yet again screwed up (sandbox won't |
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configure, because gcc-config apparently has a screwed up i686-pc-linux- |
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gnu-gcc and an invalid ctarget), and as I'm already tired of spending all |
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that extra time compiling gcc and twice the time compiling glibc, to no |
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end other than to continue multilib support, I decided it's time to dump |
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it! |
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The problem is, I now need both the no-multilib profile and the desktop |
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profile. Is multi-inheritance working yet? Regardless, what's the best |
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way to effectively get both (presumably with no-multilib inheriting from |
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desktop, since no-multilib is clearly the more restricted of the two)? |
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Must I go with no-multilib and fix up the USE flag differences by hand? |
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Other than the obvious 32-bit package masks and gcc/glibc/sandbox/ |
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binutils differences on no-multilib, are there other significant |
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differences in the profiles I need to think about? |
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Maybe it would be better to stay with desktop, and configure the |
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toolchain differences by hand, since I shouldn't need to worry much about |
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the masks, because they're mostly 32-bit binary stuff I'd not be |
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interested in anyway, save for the grub special-case? Do I pretty much |
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just copy the appropriate files from no-multilib to /etc/portage/profile, |
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or is it substantially more complicated than that? |
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What about going forward? Which profile is likely to have the least |
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critical changes, and thus be the easiest to maintain by hand, if that |
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indeed is what I have to do? What sort of tree profile changes am I |
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likely to miss out on? (I suspect it'd be safer to go no-multilib, as |
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changes there are likely to be more critical and necessary to follow, |
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than ones in desktop. I may be wrong.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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