From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HW7ou-0007Dw-CA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:18:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2R9FADU011650; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:15:10 GMT Received: from serverkommune.de (serverkommune.de [88.198.12.136]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2R9F8t2011579 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:15:08 GMT Received: (qmail 13440 invoked by uid 89); 27 Mar 2007 11:08:27 +0200 Received: from z81a1.z.pppool.de (HELO ?10.0.23.25?) (trauma@serverkommune.de@89.61.129.161) by serverkommune.de with ESMTPA; 27 Mar 2007 11:08:27 +0200 Message-ID: <4608DF0A.5020804@digital-trauma.de> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:08:26 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VGhvbWFzIFLDtnNuZXI=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070309 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: real multilib support References: <4602A2D0.80603@runbox.com> <1174586568.5958.1.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 OpenPGP: id=1ACEC659 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l2R9FAEQ011650 X-Archives-Salt: 0928428b-5d1c-449d-9d26-b03b6d8a0048 X-Archives-Hash: bbd642502a854baf1d74028a2c5510fc Hi, Duncan schrieb: > Olivier Cr=C3=AAte posted > 1174586568.5958.1.camel@localhost, excerpted below, on Thu, 22 Mar 200= 7 > 14:02:47 -0400: > > =20 >> On Thu, 2007-22-03 at 15:37 +0000, Simon Cooper wrote: >> =20 >>> Whats the status of real, proper, compiled multilib support? Is it >>> 'being worked on'? Whats the main things holding it back at the momen= t? >>> =20 >> The big missing element is proper portage support. Since it will have = to >> maintain parallel dep trees for the difference architectures. And sinc= e >> portage is a complicated beast, I don't think any significant work has >> been done in that direction. >> =20 > > FWIW, there had been efforts in that direction, but they had been shelv= ed=20 > for the time being due to the complexity and difficulty of introducing=20 > such a major new feature into portage without breaking existing working= =20 > and depended upon code. [...] > For more info, check the dev list, or look around some of the developer= =20 > blogs. > =20 Do you have any pointers? My -dev archives are too young it seems, and=20 google spits out much unrelated stuff. Regards, Thomas --=20 gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list