From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GFGSp-00015T-C7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:33:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7LKWqD8029987; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:32:52 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7LKUPPJ016161 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:30:25 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.106] (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C613D646ED for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <44EA17DE.6050503@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:30:22 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060729) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mulltiib cruft: /emul References: <200608081143.13375.vapier@gentoo.org> <20060821112146.GA9859@trantor.devurandom.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060821112146.GA9859@trantor.devurandom.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 24fd4fcd-498f-48c3-a03a-23739276de46 X-Archives-Hash: 545f8b4de8bf07fd3c13493ba685cc1e 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list