Hello, amd64 users. As you know, we were working on a better multilib support in Gentoo for a long time. Finally, we believe that most of the outraging issues were fixed and we'd like to request a wide testing of our new, shiny tool.
For your convenience, we have created a mirror of standard amd64 Linux profiles in no-emul-linux-x86 flavor: [9] default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-emul-linux-x86 [10] default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-emul-linux-x86/desktop [11] default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-emul-linux-x86/desktop/gnome [12] default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-emul-linux-x86/desktop/gnome/systemd [13] default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-emul-linux-x86/desktop/kde [14] default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-emul-linux-x86/desktop/kde/systemd [15] default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-emul-linux-x86/developer [16] default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-emul-linux-x86/selinux Those profiles mask all app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-* packages and some other unsupported configurations, therefore helping Portage make your system full gx86-multilib. Please test them well since eventually they will be merged onto the regular profiles, along with emul-linux-x86 packages being last rited for removal. The profiles are mostly intended for ~amd64 users. Stable amd64 users have to expect some keywording issues that we are in the process of resolving [1]. It is also recommended to use the newest Portage version available since Zac is improving the dependency resolver every day. There are two strategies for migrating existing systems: 1. You can set ABI_X86="32 64" in your make.conf to enable multilib build in all installed packages that support it. This is the easy way but it also means that you're going to build a lot of unneeded 32-bit libraries. 2. You can enable abi_x86_32 as-needed. This involves some extra effort but you get only what you need (well, not exactly but close enough). Portage's --autounmask helps a lot here, but you may need to upgrade Portage for better suggestions :). Please enjoy testing and let us know of your experience (e.g. by replying to this mail on gentoo-dev@). [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525254 -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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