Am Mittwoch, 9. August 2006 17:50 schrieb Mike Frysinger: > On Wednesday 09 August 2006 10:57, Duncan wrote: > > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > > Pure speculation here, but the idea /might/ have been to separate > > prebuilt binary stuff into /emul, so it wouldn't conflict with > > future multiarch portage support (which would presumably use > > /lib32), which IIRC was hoped to be here by now, but turned out to > > be rather complicated and had no portage devs which had that > > particular itch they needed to scratch, so... (IOW, no blame or > > finger pointing, just that we'd hoped it'd be here by 2.1, and it > > isn't, and that's a fact amd64 continues to have to deal with.) > > from what i remember, /emul was done because that's how some other > distro was doing it ... but at the time i was staying out of multilib > development because it sucked and i didnt have an amd64 > > now i have an amd64 and this current state annoys me greatly, so > rather than bitch all the time, i want to fix it
Herbs is maintaing the emul-libraries. IMHO it shouldn't be to hard to change it from /emul to /lib32 and /usr/lib32. And yes, /emul was there from the very beginning aka Tester/brad_mssw :-) Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
