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

[Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>]

Herbie Hopkins wrote:
> 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. 

blubb was working on this but ran out of time for it or something, he 
wrote a proto-GLEP that I've got lying around.  I'm thinking of seeing 
what I can do because the current situation really annoys me, even 
though I don't have a multilib box.

> 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.

Thanks,
Donnie
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