-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/2012 04:54 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:50:33 -0400 Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> > wrote: >> On 06/20/2012 04:35 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:25:30 -0400 Richard Yao >>> <r...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>> Multilib (and/or multiarch) support The current binaries >>>> cause a great deal of pain, particularly when a user does not >>>> want to upgrade something. I had this problem with WINE and >>>> glibc because I wanted to avoid the reverse memcpy() fiasco >>>> on my systems. This situation would have been avoided >>>> entirely if the package manager supported multilib. >>> >>> This one's unlikely to happen unless someone's prepared to put >>> in the work. > >> The multilib-portage overlay already has this working. > > But there is no spec, nor is there a developer-centric description > of it.
I missed this tibbit. I am not sure what you expect me to do this about this. Thomas Sachau developed the multilib overlay, he has put a great deal of work into it and he likely has a specification. You are more than welcome to talk to him about the specification. If it not well defined, feel free to share your ideas on how it could be better defined. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJP4jszAAoJECDuEZm+6Exk5EMP/0xRHW2PjOzb4xIEwW2ve+qM BJNEk5lMJfL2N8x5CM30n+uUOH665fSw26o6H6mkh397F7UO+BGCctQuBgSo0q3V s+bA3yFp5mZwr326RnnNKkgY5vKNHUjd7MH568i1ARHJdCx7Epn5Ep2o95msz0XG yzfxFkKT1O5BXKYXyLeTNfHvyS6cRx4qIaq394u0iLOZbH8eIzZT4GPhy0KkPc0S yeLLULtaSLQfO+F0QF/IDBC7Dupl0nxGp5cOBfsBC8Eg+mBOEHHemmKkRqv4Cv7X kddw9bx+wjSYx0unDztyoLQ34c1XklIteOjzU+gLZtQkJ0W7+z3XQ42RwlIGPUbM dUKsYZ2rPsKjUl0gh4Gux0PyEMkokmpygqbxd8vmE1lnAJaRR4jMgcG45jv7eSLp ToGPNRVvuQUypmqkyIgVSCzBoplC4DkymS5oVy96GbNGNPypx3AhuAMpo8NwsH58 TNqetlVI9RQp2Yq4S930pSDmeqtel4G3zm6yJhmRfhpc28fnyrh7yzNwERKAqbpU rExTfGd6BJul0cirkujo9ni9OOV1ue2WjBTqhp74BsBWjse5Q9J92zWmbZ9umcu0 JNJHr3wq/Fx1E4ozoYcVIKRor7T5mj7JuZpm+cyH5/GPfPZTzb0zuJy4JqbIKqHp RfpE5eCLf16fZrB94NYz =02/m -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
