>>>>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Ben de Groot wrote: > As I see it now, with respect to multilib, we have three competing > solutions, but not a clear direction which way we want to go as a > distro:
> 1: emul-* packages > 2: multilib-portage > 3: multilib.eclass > I would like to vote for option 1, as it is the least intrusive and > does what we need. If it is really felt we need a more complete > solution, then my vote would be for 2, since 3 is too intrusive and > more likely to break or complicate stuff for normal users. Option 1 is not a solution, but a workaround. It has served us, but IMHO its replacement is overdue. Just to give an example, stable emul-linux-x86-xlibs suffers from several security issues (bug 471098, A1/critical severity) since half a year. Besides, distributing pre-compiled binary packages seems very un-Gentoo-ish. Not sure why you think that option 3 is more intrusive than option 2. What can be more intrusive than requiring a modified package manager? Ulrich
