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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools-multilib: wrapper eclass for multilib builds.
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:59:00
Message-Id: CAEdQ38Hjqo5x+krKrxRijJ-MYOo=uPypV=VFOqkNvBQn9_o+0g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools-multilib: wrapper eclass for multilib builds. by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò
2 <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> wrote:
3 > On 22/09/2012 20:42, Matt Turner wrote:
4 >> I think this means "make 32-bit binary packages' dependencies on amd64
5 >> not use the emul- packages"? If so, that'd certainly be a component of
6 >> getting rid of emul-linux-x86-xlibs. It's not in the scope of my
7 >> project to get rid of /all/ of the emul- packages, but I agree that
8 >> that is a worthwhile goal.
9 >
10 > Mostly I don't want to have to build Xaw in both variants given I use
11 > neither.. but that would happen if you just made the emul depend on the
12 > packages that are converted...
13
14 Ahh, indeed. You mean that existing dependencies on
15 emul-linux-x86-xlibs should be converted into finer-grained
16 dependencies on individual libraries. Of course, that is a very good
17 idea.
18
19 In the case of Xaw, I added a deprecated USE flag recently that
20 controls the building of the old Xaw6, so we're already working toward
21 trimming Xaw from users' systems. :)