Re: [gentoo-dev] Next council meeting on 7 Dec 2009 at 1900UTC

[Thomas Sachau]

Denis Dupeyron schrieb:
> The next council meeting will be on 7 Dec 2009 at 1900UTC. If you want
> us to discuss things please let us know in reply to this email. What
> is already known is we'll talk about mtime preservation and prefix.
> You can find threads about those at:
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_a9e26414f2278275bdfa08baf839704f.xml
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_2a62689c71f95e4de5699a330b8b5524.xml
>
> Denis.
>
>

Hm, i requested the discussion of real multilib support for portage 2 months ago, i requested it for
the following council meeting, i requested it for the last council meeting and i requested it for
the next council meeting. I hope, it will finally get a place on 7 Dec 2009.

I have a git branch with a modified 2.2_rc* version of portage with included multilib support. I
already wrote about basic implementation 2 months ago in the conversation on this list with vapier.

Since zmedico wants a council-ok before accepting any patches for multilib-support in portage, i
request this. My main idea behind this request is, that more people will have a look and there are
potentially more people involved in improving it. In addition it allows more people to easily get
required 32bit libs the way they want them (specific version, specified USE flags, self-compiled, so
up-to-date unlike the emul-linux-x86-* packages).

Since the code may change in the future, my idea is to restrict it currently only to 2.2_rc*
versions and in addition a required feature (e.g. FEATURES="multilib"). Once everyone is ok with the
code and the way it works, it could be proposed as an PMS-update. If other PM-mantainers are
interested in improving it before, they are of course free to also help improving the code and the
way it works.


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Thomas Sachau

Gentoo Linux Developer