On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > One problem that I remembered now: > If every ebuild inheritting this eclass (either this one or similar) > will add a "multilib" USE, people running multilib profiles will get it > enabled for ALL packages inheritting it, causing them to see how their > systems grow a lot because they will have 32bits libs for all packages, > even when not needed. For example, in my systems I need gtk+ 32 bits > libs, but not qt ones as I don't have any qt based app requiring 32bits > installed.
Currently, yes, that is the case. The fix is pretty simple though, and is in progress: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435094 (previously mentioned in this thread...)