Re: [gentoo-dev] Real multilib support for Gentoo

[Tiziano Müller]

Am Sonntag, den 05.04.2009, 10:18 +0200 schrieb Thomas Sachau:
> Mike Frysinger schrieb:
> > On Saturday 04 April 2009 08:59:22 Thomas Sachau wrote:
> >> i would like to hear about other opinions about real multilib support
> >> within our tree and package managers. From what i know, there are mainly 2
> >> different ideas:
> >>
> >> 1. Do the main stuff in the package manager (e.g. if the ARCH is amd64 and
> >> the package has x86 keyword, the package manager adds a lib32 useflag,
> >> which would additionally install the 32bit variant of that package together
> >> with the normal 64bit install).
> >>
> >> pro: 	-much lesser work for package maintainers
> >>
> >> contra:	-needs addition in PMS and support in the pms, which will need some
> >> work on their side
> >
> > get a *working* implementation first and *then* worry about specing it.  once
> > you have something running with portage, the spec should fall naturally out.
> > previous multilib methods attempted to spec things out without any real code
> > and they've all just died.
> >
> >> 2. Do the main stuff in the ebuilds themselves (e.g. an additional eclass
> >> multilib-native.eclass, any ebuild with 32bit support would then need
> >> adaption and of course inheriting that eclass)
> >
> > this is dead end and useless overhead, and i would reject it from any core
> > package someone would try to merge.
> > -mike
>
>
> From what i got until now, it seems that all answers prefer this option, so i would like to move
> forward and create some aggreement on how this should look like or some implementation that at least
> the majority can accept. With this, i would also like to see any changes that need an EAPI to get
> into EAPI-3.
No. Won't happen.