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Hi Thomas, |
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On 01-12-2010 19:57:46 +0100, Thomas Sachau wrote: |
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> The current implementation uses a USE-dep like way internally to |
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> satisfy the needed dependencies, so that e.g. 32bit libs on a 64bit |
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> platform get their required dependencies built with 32bit libs |
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> installed. |
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This just means that if I install package X, which depends on Y and |
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MULTILIB_ABI="amd64 x86", Portage will complain (or reinstall) Y if it |
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doesn't have both amd64 and x86, right? |
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> While i did not yet get to the implementation of it, i would also like |
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> to propose something similiar for languages (like python, ruby or |
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> others), so that the basic parts are inside the PM and we can drop the |
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> different ways of implementation and allow users a much more |
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> fine-grained control on a per package base (in relation to the current |
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> way python eclass based very complex implementation works). |
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This would be absolutely great! |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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