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 1GApat-0006MY-Kd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:03:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k79F1l9Z031317; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:01:47 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 k79EvoUt016898 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:57:50 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD2664C8D for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:57:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06276-07 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:57:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744E564D29 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:57:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GApUr-0001rW-U0 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:57:25 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:57:25 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:57:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: mulltiib cruft: /emul Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:57:06 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200608081143.13375.vapier@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: pan 0.105 (When Churchill opened the door, it was a new car, a Chevrolet Nova.) Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.525 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.003, BAYES_00=-2.599, TW_II=0.077] X-Spam-Score: -2.525 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: f298b5ff-1707-4878-8cc8-c9365b55b6c0 X-Archives-Hash: 80d1153e40114041964b0caa3e1025da Mike Frysinger posted 200608081143.13375.vapier@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:43:13 -0400: > looks like your mail server ate this ... > > someone remind me why our emul packages install in some obscure > directory tree rooted in /emul > > if we moved these things to the standard lib32 dirs, it would certainly > ease the pain of people doing multilib building, both in and out of > portage > > it'd also let us free up env.d crap ... but most importantly, it'll stop > breaking my friggin tab completion for /etc It came thru b4. As an amd64 user, I've been hoping a member of the arch team would reply, as it's a question that seeing it asked, I'm now curious about myself, but nothing yet. Pure speculation here, but the idea /might/ have been to separate prebuilt binary stuff into /emul, so it wouldn't conflict with future multiarch portage support (which would presumably use /lib32), which IIRC was hoped to be here by now, but turned out to be rather complicated and had no portage devs which had that particular itch they needed to scratch, so... (IOW, no blame or finger pointing, just that we'd hoped it'd be here by 2.1, and it isn't, and that's a fact amd64 continues to have to deal with.) As I said, pure speculation, likely wrong, but that's the first logical thing that came to my mind. I too am interested in a real answer. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list