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

[Herbie Hopkins <herbs@gentoo.org>]

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.

Herbs


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