From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PQllZ-0004o3-9l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:02:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 413DEE0A99 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 19:02:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA5C2E0802 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 18:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so2038713ewy.13 for ; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:03:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ao+GRWMUaPX2t2JIqm0Us1px149mDDDLi0dNEKayqiw=; b=xCbC2x0k9qfqWY+M3DsJyCHtQTjvrHnrhdt70VMztwuIV/AdoR1FVrrKCg1O+0Y1Zs CHBpOR2yKdnSXsFuKMSnVMKOfWrgSl8WNc2OoPapP6fcxbPnBFkofRo3pSqw//tn318R 3ZnIVuKvtaMPId9YTkFwgc03lFmTCeviSABro= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=DMh/f58cEZ9Z1UYYbY1qAnHYukeoRQMyNV7OtjRww7z/giIuZVQXKjFlYdRaYV2LQ7 s0zxguA7v0kYG4zIcj8URvYDUE6JgcDiKCrmqVgNvy+tiUi7CQZzSDA0EqvA+6Z9PQEW qLa+E/ykR3QJh00vM1SijwWlzog7xIDCqFzUg= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.177.8 with SMTP id c8mr2263988wem.59.1291917821997; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.233.90 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:03:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D0109FC.7090605@gmail.com> References: <4CFFF5DE.20303@gmail.com> <4D00A5ED.3070205@f_philipp.fastmail.net> <1463292034-1291895910-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1043132697-@b3.c1.bise7.blackberry> <201012091552.55851.joost@antarean.org> <4D0109FC.7090605@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:03:41 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted. From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6ffd52c0-c7f3-4628-8f05-2252b20287d1 X-Archives-Hash: ffbd276bcff4087760019a123d2b7a80 On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Dale wrote: > > I'm thinking, AT THE MOMENT, of going multilib and grub-static. =C2=A0Tha= t way > down the road, I can switch to no-multilib and not have to reinstall grub= . > =C2=A0To simple huh? > > Dale Sounds like things are still in flux somewhere. ;-) ;-) I think multilib for now is really best. Once I thought I'd do what you outline above. After a while I decided I'm not using my computer to make a political statement and why change. It's not important to me and 32-bit support gives you options even if you don't use them. There are other things that haven't been discussed like running a chroot with 32-bit or VMWare running 32-bit Windows. I have no idea how the multilib/no-multilib thing effects those and why do I care? I certainly don't remember any problems specifically caused by multilib bringing down a 64-bit system so why not run it? You'll be happy. - Mark