Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making a common sub-profile for no-multilib

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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Dnia 2014-07-03, o godz. 09:05:47
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> napisał(a):

> Jonathan Callen posted on Thu, 03 Jul 2014 03:05:46 -0400 as excerpted:
> 
> > I did, however test when a package installs two (different) regular
> > files into paths that end up symlinked, and found that portage does
> > break in that case (as the only sensible option at that point is to
> > fail, as something will be lost in either case).
> 
> Indeed, and good point.
> 
> I guess at that point it's basically a pkg-collision, except that it's in 
> a single package instead of two different packages.  Too bad a package 
> can't block itself and thus handle it the way different packages blocking 
> each other handle that case! =;^)
> 
> That's why symlinking both lib64 and lib32 to lib isn't a particularly 
> good idea! =;^)

Symlinking anything to lib wasn't ever a particularly good idea. We
will spend a lot of effort fixing that (see the SYMLINK_LIB=no bug [1]).

[1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506276

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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