On Wednesday 09 August 2006 10:57, Duncan wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > > 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.
i asked some others and they didnt get the e-mail either ... looks like our gentoo mail server is really starting to crash here ... > 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.) from what i remember, /emul was done because that's how some other distro was doing it ... but at the time i was staying out of multilib development because it sucked and i didnt have an amd64 now i have an amd64 and this current state annoys me greatly, so rather than bitch all the time, i want to fix it -mike
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