Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 18:37 +0100, Andreas Proschofsky wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 16:04 +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:52:11AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > >   broken /usr/lib32/openoffice/program/gconfbe1.uno.so (requires
> > > libORBit-2.so.0 libgconf-2.so.4)
> >
> > binary packages should never be in /usr/
> >
> > > Is /opt ignored?
> >
> > yes, because our policy specifically says binary packages in /opt
>
> It's not that easy for every package. For instance openoffice and
> openoffice-bin need to got to the same location, cause OOo does a user
> install and this will break when changing between them (and all the
> settings / paths and so on).
>
> So either we would have both in /opt which then means that the source
> based OOo is ignored too, or we have them in /usr/lib which results in
> the ooo-bin annoyance. I would say the second one is less harmful.
>
> Btw, there is a long running bug about the revdep-rebuild, which also
> has a solution for this:
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32276

Great!

So it is being fixed.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux