Re: [gentoo-user] This nite's switch to "full multilib"

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 30/03/2015 00:10, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> Am 29.03.2015 um 20:16 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
>>
>>>> I have to do that for 195 ebuilds here and really wonder if that is
>>>> correct in the end ....
>>>
>>>
>>> It's a horrible solution, you are right. The problem is that it's not
>>> your 32 bit apps that have to be listed, it's all the libs and deps they
>>> have that need 32 bit versions to be built.
>>>
>>> If you have a fast cpu, much disk space and don't care about using some
>>> extra resources, you can always add USE="abi_xx86_32" to make.conf and
>>> make it global. Every package that supports building 32 bit versions
>>> will then be recompiled.
>> Is that as it is meant to be or some not-so-ideal-switch that will soon
>> get some polishing?
>>
>> IMO I shouldn't have to list hundreds of packages (I had to add more and
>> more) in some non-default-list ... even when I decide to run unstable
>> (~amd64).
>>
>> My main system isn't that special at all, gnome, systemd, libreoffice,
>> thunderbird, some browsers ...
>>
>> Stuff like that makes me really wonder if I spend too much of my life
>> time struggling with doing *updates*
>>
>> I like Gentoo, you all know, but things like that scare me off a bit.
> This is Gentoo, it's all about choice. Sometimes there's a downside,
> like a very long package.use to define to Portage exactly what your
> choice really is.
>
> Setting the flag globally is covered in today's news item on the matter,
> so I assume the devs are supporting it
>
>


Dang.  I had to add about 90 packages to my package.use and some more to
the keyword file. 

I wonder if make.conf would be better in my case too?  My use file just
grew my a huge amount. 

Dale

:-)  :-)