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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GFAos-0003cr-VR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:32:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7LEVCMp016413; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:31:12 GMT Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7LETES7015349 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:29:15 GMT Received: from TesterBox.tester.ca ([69.159.124.220]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060821142914.ZGFX16051.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@TesterBox.tester.ca> for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:29:14 -0400 Received: by TesterBox.tester.ca (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C77D19803E8; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:29:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mulltiib cruft: /emul From: Olivier =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cr=EAte?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20060821112146.GA9859@trantor.devurandom.co.uk> References: <200608081143.13375.vapier@gentoo.org> <20060821112146.GA9859@trantor.devurandom.co.uk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-X2yK13fNM+vyYLiDskN2" Organization: Gentoo Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:29:18 -0400 Message-Id: <1156170558.7841.6.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 X-Archives-Salt: 590badd0-ec51-404b-bfbb-2fa3909dba6a X-Archives-Hash: 536f0df87061e01a21f61e0a2dd1094f --=-X2yK13fNM+vyYLiDskN2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2006-21-08 at 12:21 +0100, Herbie Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:43:13AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > someone remind me why our emul packages install in some obscure directo= ry tree=20 > > rooted in /emul > >=20 > > if we moved these things to the standard lib32 dirs, it would certainly= ease=20 > > the pain of people doing multilib building, both in and out of portage >=20 >=20 > Mike, Sorry I missed you on irc yesterday, didn't get back til later than > expected. >=20 > I'm not sure why /emul was originally chosen though it's a choice I've > just gone along with whilst maintaining these packages. It was chosen because emul packages are put in /emul on ia64. > I've always viewed the emul libs as a temporary measure until we had full= multilib > fuctionality in portage. Afaik the only person working on this was > eradicator who has been mia for a while now so I'm unsure weather this > is ever likely to arise. Given that it looks like we'll be stuck with > these binary libs for some time yet then we may as well do as you > suggest and install them in a standard location to make building against > them a bit easier. I'll look into doing this when I next version bump the > packages. I still believe we should reserve the regular directory for the real multilib stuff, otherwise it will be very painful when we decide to move. And continue to put the stopgap binary packages in /emul. --=20 Olivier Cr=EAte tester@gentoo.org --=-X2yK13fNM+vyYLiDskN2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBE6cM+HTiOWk7ZorsRAjg0AJ4uIr1jQzhZNVkGP/9qj1LDjeFXvwCdHO1I 1uAqJolVzvDlEUonr1znUys= =7miq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-X2yK13fNM+vyYLiDskN2-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list