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 1NEthN-0001HK-Q9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:01:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD5CCE08AE for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17290E0876 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:52:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NEtYd-0004We-DL for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:51:59 +0100 Received: from athedsl-381614.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.42.172]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:51:59 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-381614.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:51:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How to install multilib'ed version of any library (for real multilib for x86 and x86_64 for every libraries)? Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:51:40 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: 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=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-381614.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091019 Thunderbird/3.0b4 In-Reply-To: <91b13c310911291014u779616cbm171427cf88cba927@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 16fec30d-8708-42c3-aa20-e3fb61a04987 X-Archives-Hash: ff59343e544851b4d24378b2886f617e On 11/29/2009 08:14 PM, Cheng Renquan wrote: > Just a simple problem: > 1) if other linux distros can achieve, why gentoo not? Gentoo *does* provide a way to have full multilib support like in other distros; the "emul-linux-x86-*" binary packages. However, only some popular and commonly needed packages are provided. Since Gentoo source based, the approach to multilib taken by other distros doesn't fit well and Gentoo needs to come up with its own way of doing multilib.