On Monday 21 August 2006 10:29, Olivier Crête 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 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. > > 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. why ? this is what blockers are for -mike