From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NErqs-0000ln-FC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:02:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D8A4E0893 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:02:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from QMTA12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.227]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FAEDE0818 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.35]) by QMTA12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id B8Rx1d0070lTkoCAC8sFl9; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:52:15 +0000 Received: from crud.chemoelectric.org ([66.41.30.59]) by OMTA04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id B8sD1d00D1GXozm8Q8sEHx; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:52:15 +0000 Received: from crud.chemoelectric.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crud.chemoelectric.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nATKq6PP028351 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:52:07 -0600 Received: (from trashman@localhost) by crud.chemoelectric.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nATKq4kj028350; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:52:04 -0600 Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:52:04 -0600 From: Barry Schwartz To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Cc: raxas Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to install multilib'ed version of any library (for real multilib for x86 and x86_64 for every libraries)? Message-ID: <20091129205204.GA20296@crud.chemoelectric.org> References: <91b13c310911140345w6fce2bd1r848b72685c7cd999@mail.gmail.com> <200911171554.03751.raxas@pavouk-v-rohu.net> <91b13c310911291014u779616cbm171427cf88cba927@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <91b13c310911291014u779616cbm171427cf88cba927@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 04881d51-138f-44a3-b4fb-e4720d72d449 X-Archives-Hash: 769d82c06fafd6e2a763659826ccaf0d Cheng Renquan skribis: > Just a simple problem: > 1) if other linux distros can achieve, why gentoo not? This is a question worth thinking about, and here is my hypothesis, based on my own way of thinking: Gentoo users tend to be people who like to build their programs from sources, and programs built from sources usually can be converted to run in 64-bit; so we are more likely to help convert programs to 64-bit than to work on making Gentoo multilib fit the standard. Also multilib builds would take significantly longer, which doesn't matter at all to users of most other distros, but it does to Gentoo users. For reasons like these, I myself never have been forceful about multilib.