[gentoo-amd64] Re: real multilib support

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

"Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@gentoo.org> posted
20070327145343.76dd4df8@c1358217.kevquinn.com, excerpted below, on  Tue,
27 Mar 2007 14:53:43 +0200:

> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:08:26 +0200
> Thomas Rösner <Thomas.Roesner@digital-trauma.de> wrote:
> 
>> My -dev archives are too young it seems, and google spits out much
>> unrelated stuff.
> 
> http://archives.gentoo.org

The immediate reference was to the PMS draft announcement on dev, which 
as I said is less than a week old, so unless someone is /just/ 
subscribing to dev now, the "too young" reference shouldn't apply to it 
specifically.  However, there's a long and politicized history on portage 
features and portage alternatives going back some years and involving by 
dragging them in virtually any of the huge threads (say more than 50 or 
100 posts) going back years... to early 2004 I think at least, that being 
when I got involved with Gentoo, and probably earlier.  Thus, the history 
is there for anyone wanting to trace the how and why of where we are 
today thru the various events and controversies leading to it.

As for archives, in addition to the official Gentoo archive linked above, 
there's the gmane.org list archive, with both web and news interface 
options.  All the mailing lists I participate in (this one included) are 
done using pan (my preferred NNTP client), thru the news interface and 
list2news gateway at news.gmane.org.  It doesn't expire posts, so it's 
possible to subscribe to a "group" there, and pull headers back to at 
least the time the list was added to gmane (and often earlier, clear back 
to list inception, if there's some archive of posts they can be imported 
from).  If one desires, one can then search this list of posts as 
downloaded from gmane, with any of the conventional local file search 
tools.

http://gmane.org , for more information on it and a list of lists carried.

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