On Thursday 21 June 2012 03:00:39 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> In case you're not aware, the first time Gentoo did multilib, it was
> done as a series of random changes to Portage that no-one really
> thought through or understood. As you can see, that didn't work...

yes yes, it's very easy to throw rocks in hindsight at developers who, quite 
literally, were in completely new waters.  not just in the Gentoo/PMS world, 
but in multilib *anywhere* (other distros, upstream packages, etc...).  i'd 
say it's almost as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, but mythbusters proved 
that's actually kind of hard.
-mike