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Hi, |
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Duncan schrieb: |
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> Olivier Crête <tester@g.o> posted |
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> 1174586568.5958.1.camel@localhost, excerpted below, on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 |
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> 14:02:47 -0400: |
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>> On Thu, 2007-22-03 at 15:37 +0000, Simon Cooper wrote: |
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>>> Whats the status of real, proper, compiled multilib support? Is it |
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>>> 'being worked on'? Whats the main things holding it back at the moment? |
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>>> |
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>> The big missing element is proper portage support. Since it will have to |
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>> maintain parallel dep trees for the difference architectures. And since |
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>> portage is a complicated beast, I don't think any significant work has |
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>> been done in that direction. |
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> FWIW, there had been efforts in that direction, but they had been shelved |
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> for the time being due to the complexity and difficulty of introducing |
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> such a major new feature into portage without breaking existing working |
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> and depended upon code. [...] |
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> For more info, check the dev list, or look around some of the developer |
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> blogs. |
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Do you have any pointers? My -dev archives are too young it seems, and |
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google spits out much unrelated stuff. |
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Regards, |
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Thomas |
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