On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Matt Turner schrieb: >> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> It is a simple eclass using autotools out-of-source builds to build >>> packages for multiple ABIs when multilib is supported. >> >> Thanks a lot, Michał! This looks good to me. >> >>> Use case: xorg packages, ask Matt. >> >> So the idea is that users want up-to-date 32-bit drivers for games and >> WINE. The emul- packages aren't a very good solution for a number of >> reasons. >> >> I'd like to add multilib USE flags to Mesa and thus its dependencies. >> I realized that almost everything in x11-libs/ could be converted very >> easily, which would allow us to get rid of emul-linux-x86-xlibs in >> addition to emul-linux-x86-opengl. >> >> > > This looks like a shortened duplication of a subset of multilib-portage > features. While this wont hurt multilib-portage (since it does exclude > most actions on ebuilds with USE=multilib), it will mean a rewrite for > many ebuilds, which then again need another rewrite (or more likely > revert), when multilib-portage is accepted in a future EAPI.
I'd much rather have portage handle this for me as well. Unfortunately, the last mail I see about multilib-portage is from two months ago. If it were in EAPI 5, I'd be happy to wait for it. If it even looked like it were progressing, I might wait. But, as you know, gentoo-dev is where ideas go to die. As far as ebuild conversions go, this is really simple. > So i would prefer some help/support with multilib-portage to get it > accepted sooner, instead of this additional workaround for a subset of > packages. That seems like a reasonable request. Let me re-read the previously mentioned thread and get back to you.
