From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: native multilib support in portage for eapi 7
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 11:07:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151203110705.08727b04@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151202174322.GD23754@vapier.lan>
On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 12:43:22 -0500
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 01 Dec 2015 11:38, William Hubbs wrote:
> > I find the multilib eclasses and their separate multilib phase
> > functions to be confusing, so I was wondering if we could discuss
> > making multilib support native to portage in eapi 7 so that we can
> > use the normal phase functions again?
>
> we cannot hardcode the actual ABIs in PMS because adding/removing ones
> would require an EAPI update which is a terrible idea
nothing prevents defining the ABIs in profiles
a line has to be drawn and well thought of; whether it's worth the
effort, I doubt it
however, considering this would make the multilib-portage & multilib
eclasses ideas converge and with the recent trends in including the
kitchen sink in PMS, it's not something to discard completely
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-01 17:38 [gentoo-dev] rfc: native multilib support in portage for eapi 7 William Hubbs
2015-12-01 17:45 ` Michał Górny
2015-12-02 4:39 ` Gregory M. Turner
2015-12-02 11:10 ` Alexis Ballier
2015-12-02 17:43 ` Mike Frysinger
2015-12-03 10:07 ` Alexis Ballier [this message]
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