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Hi, |
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Kevin F. Quinn schrieb: |
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> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:37:52 +0000 |
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> Simon Cooper <thecoop@××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Whats the status of real, proper, compiled multilib support? Is it |
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>> 'being worked on'? |
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> You might be interested in: |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~kanaka/auto-multilib/ |
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> which doesn't need ABI dependencies - ABI dependencies and |
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> associated tracking could turn out to be a bit of a nightmare in |
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> practice. Kanaka explains some of the reasons why. |
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The doc there doesn't get me too excited, however. I don't want to drag |
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a 32bit userland around for /every/ ebuild that has multilib support. |
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Perhaps this is more useful if combined with useflag dependencies (which |
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are about to come in portage and are in paludis) - that way you'd never |
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bother to set one of the ABI useflags, but ebuilds could depend on 32bit |
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versions of libraries. Things like installing gtk+ themes for the 32bit |
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gtk libs, too, would be the only thing you'd have to specify manually |
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that way. |
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>> Whats the main things holding it back at the moment? |
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> My guess would be that there's no desperate need for it. The existing |
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> workarounds; i.e. chroots, emul packages etc work well enough for the |
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> amd64/x86 pair anyway. |
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They "sort of" work, yes. But currently Gentoo isn't using the amd64-x86 |
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compatibility to it's full potential. You'd think it's easier for a |
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source based distro to do this, but right now changes to portage are |
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harder than they should be (I agree with ciaranm on this one without |
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even looking to hard at the portage code, the time features spend in the |
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queue just speaks for itself). This is an area where portage |
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alternatives really could shine, funnily I don't see them picking this |
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up at all. |
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Well, at least the current state of multilib keeps me from installing to |
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much non-free software. I collect some GNU/karma points that way ;-). |
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Regards, |
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Thomas |
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