From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD90138CCA for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 805E1E09E7; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:05:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 51677E09AF for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:05:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YcZND-0007GQ-42 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:04:59 +0200 Received: from p4ff58186.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.245.129.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:04:59 +0200 Received: from holger.hoffstaette by p4ff58186.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:04:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Holger =?iso-8859-1?q?Hoffst=E4tte?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: This nite's switch to "full multilib" Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:04:47 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <5517CCCC.90800@seismic.de> <551881EA.7040705@gmail.com> <5519103D.8020200@xunil.at> <201503301023.30797.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <551919CF.70200@gmail.com> <55191F2F.4070906@xunil.at> <55192205.4060702@gmail.com> <5519302F.5070906@gmail.com> <20150330134459.471d2faf@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p4ff58186.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) X-Archives-Salt: 9c7d940c-2bae-4485-9efc-0af52d16598a X-Archives-Hash: cd076f6862df3ae9909e8510fb770fa2 On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:44:59 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:15:01 +0000 (UTC), Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > >> > Portage does not override your choices, and it certainly does not >> > allow one single ebuild to automagically change the behaviour of >> > multiple other ebuilds. The correct way to bring about changes in >> > behaviour is to add your global choices to make.conf (which is >> > outside the control of the tree), or to add your explicit changes to >> > package.* >> >> ..that just shows the root of the problem: the ABI is not handled >> consistently, but rather as a per-package configuration choice. > > The news item also showed how to make it a global choice, avoiding the > need to multiple per-package directories. I'm not sure that's a solution to the problem at all (which is why I didn't do it on my machines either). Apart from always wasting much more work & resources than necessary for no good reason it doesn't answer the question what happens as soon as I want to build a package that is 64-bit-only - in which case you'd end up in the same situation we have now, just mirrored. -h