Re: [gentoo-dev] mulltiib cruft: /emul

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 2006-08-21 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 directory tree 
> > rooted in /emul
> > 
> > if we moved these things to the standard lib32 dirs, it would certainly ease 
> > the pain of people doing multilib building, both in and out of portage
> 
> 
> Mike, Sorry I missed you on irc yesterday, didn't get back til later than
> expected.
> 
> I'm not sure why /emul was originally chosen though it's a choice I've
> just gone along with whilst maintaining these packages. 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.

Don't forget that this will require an update to (at least)
eselect-opengl, too.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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