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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools-multilib: wrapper eclass for multilib builds.
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:11:44
Message-Id: CAEdQ38FBtSvWqSYWP8-EXpN1ocHv46+yScag4muY9b79yUOM6w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools-multilib: wrapper eclass for multilib builds. by Pacho Ramos
1 On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
2 > One problem that I remembered now:
3 > If every ebuild inheritting this eclass (either this one or similar)
4 > will add a "multilib" USE, people running multilib profiles will get it
5 > enabled for ALL packages inheritting it, causing them to see how their
6 > systems grow a lot because they will have 32bits libs for all packages,
7 > even when not needed. For example, in my systems I need gtk+ 32 bits
8 > libs, but not qt ones as I don't have any qt based app requiring 32bits
9 > installed.
10
11 Currently, yes, that is the case.
12
13 The fix is pretty simple though, and is in progress:
14 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435094 (previously mentioned
15 in this thread...)