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 1GFDnB-0003db-Tp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:42:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7LHfemK000198; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:41:40 GMT Received: from mail.max-t.com (h216-18-124-229.gtcust.grouptelecom.net [216.18.124.229]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7LHdhVG031931 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:39:44 GMT Received: from cocagne.max-t.internal ([192.168.1.124]) by mail.max-t.com with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFDkT-0002sM-EE for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:39:42 -0400 From: Olivier Crete To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200608211328.37602.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <200608081143.13375.vapier@gentoo.org> <20060821112146.GA9859@trantor.devurandom.co.uk> <1156170558.7841.6.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <200608211328.37602.vapier@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:39:40 -0400 Message-Id: <1156181980.2497.3.camel@cocagne.max-t.internal> 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 2.6.3 (2.6.3-1.fc5.5) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.124 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tester@gentoo.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-25) on mx X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.4 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mulltiib cruft: /emul Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1 (built Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:17:48 -0500) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail.max-t.com) X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k7LHdhVG031931 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k7LHfeo8000198 X-Archives-Salt: 0a651205-1a77-4abf-971d-77a4d5f6307f X-Archives-Hash: d95edde51f901e55b5cb7c299308b4b0 On Mon, 2006-21-08 at 13:28 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 21 August 2006 10:29, Olivier Cr=C3=AAte wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-21-08 at 12:21 +0100, Herbie Hopkins wrote: > > > I've always viewed the emul libs as a temporary measure until we ha= d 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 weath= er > > > this is ever likely to arise. Given that it looks like we'll be stu= ck > > > 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 ag= ainst > > > them a bit easier. I'll look into doing this when I next version bu= mp 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 > why ? this is what blockers are for Will we make emul-x86-gtk-libs block gtk+? We dont have use based deps/blockers... how long will it take before we have API/arch based ones. In my humble opinion, keeping that stuff in emul is much better, in the same way as we would install binary packages in /opt and not /usr. --=20 Olivier Cr=C3=AAte tester@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list