On 06/16/2014 17:42, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:27:19 -0400 > Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 16/06/14 04:05 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote: >>> On 06/16/2014 15:47, hasufell wrote: >>>> So I don't see what else we can do here other than taking more >>>> radical steps to INFORM users of these possible breakages... and >>>> that's exactly what a hardmask is for. >>> >>> What about those of us who have been using crossdev to generate >>> cross-compilers for years w/o issue, because we run non-multilib? >>> Hardmasking crossdev to solve multilib problems doesn't accomplish >>> anything, other than just irk us. Why not hardmask the multilib >>> stuff instead and leave crossdev alone? >> >> well, we could hardmask in the multilib profiles... but that's a bit >> of a digression > > OK, let's sum it up. > > We have multilib users. > > We have crossdev users. > > Some multilib users are crossdev users. > > Some multilib users who are crossdev users have built a cross-toolchain. > > Some multilib users who have built a cross-toolchain experience bug > #500338. > > Masking crossdev would cause issues for all crossdev users. > > Masking multilib would cause issues for all multilib users. > > Masking crossdev on multilib profiles would cause issues for all users > of both crossdev and multilib who haven't built a cross-toolchain that > irks multilib > > Masking crossdev on multilib profiles would also cause issues for all > users of both crossdev and multilib who haven't built a cross-toolchain > at all but now find they want to and run into bug #500338. > > In short, masking crossdev in any of the above ways results in very > little progress, and is detrimental to solving the issue since the mask > would prevent testing on a wide range of platforms because of the > inconvenience that masking causes, deterring people from even trying. > > jer
+1 -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS ku...@gentoo.org 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
