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From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>, multilib@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: emul-linux-x86-xlibs deps being replaced in gx86
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:55:11
Message-Id: CAB9SyzTvb5P3vKhD_VBJ5nJ83wuc9yYXB9xrw8jkUSLDuUWZCQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: emul-linux-x86-xlibs deps being replaced in gx86 by Alexis Ballier
1 On 22 April 2013 21:51, Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:21:55 +0800
4 > Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
5 > > It should come as no surprise that I am not happy with this. While I
6 > > applaud your efforts to attempt to improve the multilib situation, I
7 > > don't think we are quite at the stage yet where this can be pushed as
8 > > the default choice, as you are doing now.
9 > >
10 > > In my opinion this belongs in an overlay for further development and
11 > > much more extensive testing. You are now pushing this to ebuilds that
12 > > may very well go stable within weeks — unless I'm missing something
13 > > and you are masking these features / useflags on stable.
14 >
15 > It is not default unless abi_x86_32 & friends are enabled; old
16 > behavior is preserved until these flag are default in multilib profiles.
17 > It is also not stable until the multilib deps are stable, which is
18 > independent of packages having the || dep being stable. If there is a
19 > need then useflags can be masked on stable also so that, again,
20 > behavior remains the same on stable.
21 >
22 > Alexis.
23 >
24
25 Alright, that wasn't immediately obvious. That does make these changes more
26 acceptable.
27
28 --
29 Cheers,
30
31 Ben | yngwin
32 Gentoo developer
33 Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin