I'm about to reorder yet again qemu. Before the idea was to provide just a single ebuild, qemu, covering it all.
The problem is that on a side we have the softmmu, full emulator/paravirt that uses lots of libraries and has qemu-kvm sporting some speedups over it from time to time; on the other we have qemu-user, that doesn't have dipendencies and usually needs to be built statically. qemu-user is nowadays widely used to have non-native chroot to speed up building by overcoming non-cross-friendly build systems (hi perl&python). With the patchset Fabio managed to put together we don't even need to mess with hybrid systems due some key component for building a recent desktop (e.g. cmake for kde) uncover bugs in the machinery the hard way. I'd add a new ebuild for qemu-user that is always static, with a initscript to ease having the binfmt set up, it will be close resembiling the ebuild qemu-user-static from sabayon and not colliding with qemu. Is anybody against to this approach? lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
