Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: crossdev and multilib interference

[Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>]

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On 16/06/14 07:38 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> Can $PATH be configured via our existing eselect tool to
> enable/disable the crossdev paths when needed?
> 

Technically it could but not really ; PATH is an environment thing,
AFAIK all eselect could do is trigger the addition or removal of
entries in /etc/env.d/ , but after that happens one would still need
to 'env-update && . /etc/profile' to get the changes.

Similarly I don't think using an eselect tool to bring the crossdev
tools into the default path (via symlinks) is a great idea either; yes
it'd allow users to un-eselect the crossdev tools when errors occur,
but the errors would still occur every time a user forgets to do this
first.

It would be easier to update PATH yourself manually in the shell, I
expect; perhaps a quick utility could do that for you (maybe opening
up a crossdev-ready subshell) so you don't have to remember the path.


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