On 22 April 2013 21:51, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:21:55 +0800
> Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > It should come as no surprise that I am not happy with this. While I
> > applaud your efforts to attempt to improve the multilib situation, I
> > don't think we are quite at the stage yet where this can be pushed as
> > the default choice, as you are doing now.
> >
> > In my opinion this belongs in an overlay for further development and
> > much more extensive testing. You are now pushing this to ebuilds that
> > may very well go stable within weeks — unless I'm missing something
> > and you are masking these features / useflags on stable.
>
> It is not default unless abi_x86_32 & friends are enabled; old
> behavior is preserved until these flag are default in multilib profiles.
> It is also not stable until the multilib deps are stable, which is
> independent of packages having the || dep being stable. If there is a
> need then useflags can be masked on stable also so that, again,
> behavior remains the same on stable.
>
> Alexis.
>

Alright, that wasn't immediately obvious. That does make these changes more
acceptable.

-- 
Cheers,

Ben | yngwin
Gentoo developer
Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin

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