Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 13-11-2012

[Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:38:20 -0500
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:

[...]
> > The end result of this assumption is that the use of
> > gen_usr_ldscript() and the move of libs from /usr/lib to /lib will
> > become deprecated, correct?  I think it's pertinent to note this (or
> > whatever other changes will then be requested/required for Council
> > to decide on) within this discussion, if not also within the
> > "plan"..
> 
> On Linux, yes, you are correct. I wouldn't propose touching it for the
> *bsd platforms.
> 
> Also, once everyone switches over, this deprecation would be
> transparent. The calls to gen_usr_ldscript would be removed from
> ebuilds where possible, and the function itself could be disabled on
> linux. Once this is done, when packages are rebuilt, the libraries
> would migrate back to /usr/lib.


(I hadn't seen that thread.)

Removing it from ebuilds implies touching it for *bsd platforms. A lot
of ebuilds are shared between the g/*bsd and g/linux port, that's
somewhat the point of the whole thing. Of course, there may be
linux-only packages where the calls to gen_usr_ldscript will become
useless, but in general these calls should remain and the function
shall be a no-op on platforms where this is desired.