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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:20:31
Message-Id: 1340258936.2470.5.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5 by Justin
1 El mié, 20-06-2012 a las 23:43 +0200, Justin escribió:
2 > On 20.06.2012 22:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:25:30 -0400
4 > > Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote:
5 > >> Multilib (and/or multiarch) support
6 > >> The current binaries cause a great deal of pain, particularly
7 > >> when a user does not want to upgrade something. I had this problem
8 > >> with WINE and glibc because I wanted to avoid the reverse memcpy()
9 > >> fiasco on my systems. This situation would have been avoided entirely
10 > >> if the package manager supported multilib.
11 > >
12 > > This one's unlikely to happen unless someone's prepared to put in the
13 > > work.
14 >
15 > Tommy worked a lot on this and he asked for help to bring his
16 > proposal/spec/glep into shape.
17 > We are all aware what this is all about and know that anybody who is
18 > using multilib would benefit.
19 > Can't you simply work with him together to get it into what you expect
20 > it to be instead of pointing out that it isn't?
21 >
22
23 Also, if I remember correctly, Tommy asked for this some months ago, you
24 asked for what he sent some days ago and now you require more and more
25 work to delay things to be implemented. I also don't understand why
26 Gentoo is forced to stick with old ways of doing things until new EAPI
27 is approved while Exherbo is free to implement and use things like that
28 special way of handling DEPENDENCIES without waiting for any EAPI to be
29 accepted... or maybe I am wrong and people is able to use any PM manager
30 compliant with EAPI on exherbo without issues?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>