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From: Richard Yao <ryao@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:08:20
Message-Id: 4FE23B33.7060609@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5 by Ciaran McCreesh
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4 On 06/20/2012 04:54 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:50:33 -0400 Richard Yao <ryao@g.o>
6 > wrote:
7 >> On 06/20/2012 04:35 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
8 >>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:25:30 -0400 Richard Yao
9 >>> <ryao@g.o> wrote:
10 >>>> Multilib (and/or multiarch) support The current binaries
11 >>>> cause a great deal of pain, particularly when a user does not
12 >>>> want to upgrade something. I had this problem with WINE and
13 >>>> glibc because I wanted to avoid the reverse memcpy() fiasco
14 >>>> on my systems. This situation would have been avoided
15 >>>> entirely if the package manager supported multilib.
16 >>>
17 >>> This one's unlikely to happen unless someone's prepared to put
18 >>> in the work.
19 >
20 >> The multilib-portage overlay already has this working.
21 >
22 > But there is no spec, nor is there a developer-centric description
23 > of it.
24
25 I missed this tibbit. I am not sure what you expect me to do this
26 about this. Thomas Sachau developed the multilib overlay, he has put a
27 great deal of work into it and he likely has a specification. You are
28 more than welcome to talk to him about the specification. If it not
29 well defined, feel free to share your ideas on how it could be better
30 defined.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>