>>>>> 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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