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

[Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>]

Am Mittwoch, 9. August 2006 17:50 schrieb Mike Frysinger:
> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 10:57, Duncan wrote:
> > Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> posted
> > 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

Herbs is maintaing the emul-libraries.
IMHO it shouldn't be to hard to change it from /emul to /lib32 
and /usr/lib32. And yes, /emul was there from the very beginning aka 
Tester/brad_mssw :-)

Danny
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Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>
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