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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 <ryao@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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>> Multilib (and/or multiarch) support The current binaries cause a |
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>> great deal of pain, particularly when a user does not want to |
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>> upgrade something. I had this problem with WINE and glibc because |
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>> I wanted to avoid the reverse memcpy() fiasco on my systems. This |
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>> situation would have been avoided entirely if the package manager |
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>> supported multilib. |
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> This one's unlikely to happen unless someone's prepared to put in |
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> the work. |
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The multilib-portage overlay already has this working. |
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>> POSIX Shell compliance There has been a great deal of work done |
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>> to give the user full control of what is on his system and there |
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>> is more that we can do there. In particular, I think a lean |
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>> Gentoo Linux system should be able to use busybox sh and nothing |
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>> else. That requires POSIX shell compliance. OpenRC init scripts |
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>> support this and the configure scripts support this. The few |
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>> exceptions are bugs that are addressed by the Gentoo BSD |
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>> developers. As such, I think we should make EAPI=5 use POSIX |
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>> shell by default. If an ebuild requires bash, we can allow the |
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>> ebuild to declare that (e.g. WANT_SH=bash), but that should be |
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>> the exception and not the rule. |
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> So far as I know, every PM relies heavily upon bash anyway (and |
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> can't easily be made not to), so even if developers would accept |
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> having to rewrite all their eclasses, it still wouldn't remove the |
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> dep. |
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Lets address POSIX compliance in the ebuilds first. Then we can deal |
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with the package managers. |
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