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

[Mike Doty <kingtaco@gentoo.org>]

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Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Olivier Crete wrote:
>> It was chosen by brad_mssw to match the way it is done on ia64. And I
>> think we should continue to put the binary
>> app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-* in /emul/  and that lib32 should be
>> reserved for properly installed packages using portage whenever we
>> manage to get portage to support it.
> 
> It makes sense that you wouldn't want these binary packages going into
> /lib32 or /usr/lib32, but /emul seems like an odd choice compared to
> something like /opt/lib32.
> 
> Thanks,
> Donnie
> 
IIRC, /emul predates FHS acceptance.  also, while they are "binary"
packages, they arn't in the same catagory as binary-only packages.  We
distribute them to assist multilib and to overcome problems that portage
wasn't really designed for.

We're getting to the point where most emul stuff could be made obsolete.
 The amd64 team is having a meeting next week and I'll bring the point up.

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