[gentoo-amd64] Re: How to install multilib'ed version of any library (for real multilib for x86 and x86_64 for every libraries)?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 11/29/2009 08:14 PM, Cheng Renquan wrote:
Just a simple problem:
1) if other linux distros can achieve, why gentoo not?

Gentoo *does* provide a way to have full multilib support like in other 
distros; the "emul-linux-x86-*" binary packages.  However, only some 
popular and commonly needed packages are provided.

Since Gentoo source based, the approach to multilib taken by other 
distros doesn't fit well and Gentoo needs to come up with its own way of 
doing multilib.