This will be shown as relevant to everyone who has installed virtual/opencl, i.e. also to people on amd64 who have NOT enabled abi_x86_32 for this package - but there is no way to filter news items by use flags, is there? Anyway, comments are welcome!
* * * Title: Removing ABI_X86_32 support from virtual/opencl Author: Marek Szuba <mare...@gentoo.org> Posted: 2020-03-09 Revision: 2 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: virtual/opencl From April 2020 onwards virtual/opencl will no longer provide support for the 32-bit ABI on either multilib amd64 or native x86 systems. The reason for this is that most modern OpenCL providers currently available from Gentoo only support the 64-bit ABI anyway. Therefore, we intend to initially mask: - virtual/opencl in x86 profiles, - USE=abi_x86_32 for virtual/opencl in all profiles, and - USE=opencl in x86 profiles. and follow up with removal of multilib support and x86 keywords from virtual/opencl. Note that this change will only affect the virtual package, i.e. OpenCL providers which do support ABI_X86_32 will continue to advertise this capability. Users of such providers who wish to retain 32-bit OpenCL support are advised to add virtual/opencl to package.provided; see portage(5) for details. -- MS
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