On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 12:43:22 -0500 Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 01 Dec 2015 11:38, William Hubbs wrote: > > I find the multilib eclasses and their separate multilib phase > > functions to be confusing, so I was wondering if we could discuss > > making multilib support native to portage in eapi 7 so that we can > > use the normal phase functions again? > > we cannot hardcode the actual ABIs in PMS because adding/removing ones > would require an EAPI update which is a terrible idea nothing prevents defining the ABIs in profiles a line has to be drawn and well thought of; whether it's worth the effort, I doubt it however, considering this would make the multilib-portage & multilib eclasses ideas converge and with the recent trends in including the kitchen sink in PMS, it's not something to discard completely