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On 06/20/2012 04:54 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:50:33 -0400 Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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>> On 06/20/2012 04:35 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:25:30 -0400 Richard Yao |
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>>> <ryao@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> Multilib (and/or multiarch) support The current binaries |
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>>>> cause a great deal of pain, particularly when a user does not |
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>>>> want to upgrade something. I had this problem with WINE and |
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>>>> glibc because I wanted to avoid the reverse memcpy() fiasco |
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>>>> on my systems. This situation would have been avoided |
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>>>> entirely if the package manager supported multilib. |
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>>> |
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>>> This one's unlikely to happen unless someone's prepared to put |
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>>> in the work. |
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>> The multilib-portage overlay already has this working. |
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> But there is no spec, nor is there a developer-centric description |
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> of it. |
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>>> So far as I know, every PM relies heavily upon bash anyway |
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>>> (and can't easily be made not to), so even if developers would |
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>>> accept having to rewrite all their eclasses, it still wouldn't |
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>>> remove the dep. |
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> |
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>> Lets address POSIX compliance in the ebuilds first. Then we can |
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>> deal with the package managers. |
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> Why? It's highly doubtful the package manglers could switch shells |
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> even if they wanted to, and even if every ebuild started using EAPI |
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> 5. It's wasted effort. |
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Source the ebuild using the system shell, check for WANT_SH. If it |
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does not exist, proceed. If it does, start over with a different shell. |
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I do not see any technical problem. |
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