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On 15 March 2015 at 22:43, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> Hello, everyone. Here's the first draft of news item for |
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>> gx86-multilib. I tried to cover all the important aspects. Please |
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>> review and let me know what you think. |
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>> Title: True multilib support on amd64 |
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>> Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> |
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>> Content-Type: text/plain |
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>> Posted: 2015-01-28 |
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>> Revision: 1 |
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>> News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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>> Display-If-Keyword: amd64 |
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>> Display-If-Keyword: ~amd64 |
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> Users of no-multilib profiles won't be affected, so maybe |
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> Display-If-Profile should be used (in addition, or instead of |
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> Display-If-Keyword)? |
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>> Starting with 2015-03-29, we are enabling the true multilib support |
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>> on amd64 and masking the old emul-linux-x86 package sets for removal. |
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>> This change provides |
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> I'm not a native speaker, but shouldn't a future tense be used here? |
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English teacher here: no. The present continuous ("are enabling") is a |
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normal way to express the future in English. |
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The only changes necessary here, as already noted, is changing 'with' |
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to 'on' before the date, and dropping 'the' before true. |
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It may be nice to specify *stable* amd64. I would also say that 'true' |
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is incorrect, as the emul packages were also truly multilib, just |
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implemented in a different way. Maybe 'eclass-based' is more specific |
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and less opinionated? |
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>> our users with the opportunity to build 32-bit |
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>> libraries from source with all the flexibility given by ebuilds, rather |
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>> than relying on pre-packaged binary versions of them. |
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> [...] |
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>> installed on their systems. This will aid the Package Manager |
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>> in choosing the correct dependency resolution path. If using Portage, |
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>> this can be done using the following command: |
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>> $ emerge -C 'app-emulation/emul-linux-x86*' |
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>> Note that after performing this step, 32-bit applications on your system |
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> So far you have used third person throughout, so avoid the "your" |
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> here. |
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I agree. Maybe 'that'? |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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