>>>>> On Sun, 11 May 2014, Michał Górny wrote: > The gx86-multilib project is working hard to bring our users a better > experience in multilib support. Eventually, we would like to phase out > emul-linux and replace it with less flawed multilib-build solution. > However, that requires a lot of work and we need your help.
> One of the major flaws of the emul-linux solution was that a single > package corresponded to multiple libraries. For proper multilib > support, we need to unbundle those and replace the dependencies on > emul-linux with detailed library dependencies. Doing this properly > often requires access to the executables. This looks like a problem similar to the one we had when porting from monolithic to modular X11. There were some tools at the time that would help with dependency checking: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/porting-modular-x-howto.xml Maybe some of that old wisdom could be used for solving the new problem? Ulrich
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