Re: [gentoo-amd64] real multilib support

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Thursday 22 March 2007, Thomas Rösner <Thomas.Roesner@××××××××××××××.de> 
wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] real multilib support':
> Simon Cooper schrieb:
> > Whats the status of real, proper, compiled multilib support? Is it
> > 'being worked on'? Whats the main things holding it back at the
> > moment?
>
> Portage can't track ABI dependencies. Extending portage right now is
> hard, and a EAPI 0 spec is coming around. From reading -dev I get the
> sense that the portage devs want to wait with adding features to portage
> until that's done.
>
> Does paludis do ABI tracking?

From what I understand, they are waiting on the EAPI spec before starting 
work on this.  0.20.1 doesn't appear to have any ABI tracking related 
features that I can see, although it may be possible to fake with 
sophisticated hooks+bashrc.

> The paludis hp only says
> something about chroots.

It is much easier to convince paludis to build packages for a chroot from 
outside the chroot than it is to convince portage to do the same thing, 
but that's a rather minor feature, and requires some configuration-file 
discipline.

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