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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Olivier Crête" <tester@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mulltiib cruft: /emul
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:30:51
Message-Id: 200608211328.37602.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] mulltiib cruft: /emul by "Olivier Crête"
1 On Monday 21 August 2006 10:29, Olivier Crête wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2006-21-08 at 12:21 +0100, Herbie Hopkins wrote:
3 > > I've always viewed the emul libs as a temporary measure until we had full
4 > > multilib fuctionality in portage. Afaik the only person working on this
5 > > was eradicator who has been mia for a while now so I'm unsure weather
6 > > this is ever likely to arise. Given that it looks like we'll be stuck
7 > > with these binary libs for some time yet then we may as well do as you
8 > > suggest and install them in a standard location to make building against
9 > > them a bit easier. I'll look into doing this when I next version bump the
10 > > packages.
11 >
12 > I still believe we should reserve the regular directory for the real
13 > multilib stuff, otherwise it will be very painful when we decide to
14 > move. And continue to put the stopgap binary packages in /emul.
15
16 why ? this is what blockers are for
17 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] mulltiib cruft: /emul Olivier Crete <tester@g.o>