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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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> 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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Kevin F. Quinn |
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