On Wednesday 09 August 2006 10:57, Duncan wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> posted
> > looks like your mail server ate this ...
> >
> > 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
> >
> > it'd also let us free up env.d crap ... but most importantly, it'll stop
> > breaking my friggin tab completion for /etc
>
> It came thru b4.  As an amd64 user, I've been hoping a member of the arch
> team would reply, as it's a question that seeing it asked, I'm now curious
> about myself, but nothing yet.

i asked some others and they didnt get the e-mail either ... looks like our 
gentoo mail server is really starting to crash here ...

> Pure speculation here, but the idea /might/ have been to separate prebuilt
> binary stuff into /emul, so it wouldn't conflict with future multiarch
> portage support (which would presumably use /lib32), which IIRC was hoped
> to be here by now, but turned out to be rather complicated and had no
> portage devs which had that particular itch they needed to scratch, so...
> (IOW, no blame or finger pointing, just that we'd hoped it'd be here by
> 2.1, and it isn't, and that's a fact amd64 continues to have to deal with.)

from what i remember, /emul was done because that's how some other distro was 
doing it ... but at the time i was staying out of multilib development 
because it sucked and i didnt have an amd64

now i have an amd64 and this current state annoys me greatly, so rather than 
bitch all the time, i want to fix it
-mike