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 1PQVsh-00035A-Le for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:05:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C24EE084C for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 02:05:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 852B4E0891 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 01:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf22 with SMTP id 22so2054844wyf.40 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:17:18 -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=vAn5uj6FnplecBA+hDOuZxkv844rcQ+JxsUoa6Wy0B0=; b=JWAFqvq4jcuCvD1W2LZ87abS8ciZxgp7gRB86z1hLliIWCQiobNl/YrzcCaGPFtNrl 0ovj3ambQElfPBE9w/4ChZajqSEhKjgFH+kj+M6ps93B+yh/48vsauL57omolgZP+Nko v71v7C3p7LHCBdsidyPUoCBsHRMaG6xEYNhH0= 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=PSzxo7tgFHhtXR7a588ty1vmoAFtbvz11usch3XfDSnmurW4Z9pb4Nw4K+F4BcklVB FKeoLNNgqmMkv8ezaiEbyUUKO7vnkBwUgAdm1Y7FwpLXXehp2rNS5NSFWjXyfPu3CKfN 818Me2pK3kXCuErzJH43nW7B0uB09ZCKqIqYo= 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 10.216.51.135 with SMTP id b7mr555129wec.29.1291857438743; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:17:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.233.90 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:17:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D002218.9060302@gmail.com> References: <4CFFF5DE.20303@gmail.com> <20101208180344.eefa3254.frank.peters@comcast.net> <4D002218.9060302@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:17:18 -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: 53bbcb6b-c5a5-434c-a9bd-b4e50f4b262f X-Archives-Hash: 32a69c057dbdd6eb80f79c5d017dcf8f > > Now I have a question. =C2=A0How do I tell Gentoo to make it pure 64 or a= mix of > 32 and 64? =C2=A0I have read about this but I don't think I have actually= seen > where it is set. =C2=A0Is it a profile selection, USE flag or something e= lse? > It's a profile choice. Here's a FAQ link that discusses it. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml Thing is it's sort of a choice you want to make once and not change in the future, or so I'm told. > If I decide on one then want to switch to the other, does that require a > reinstall or just a change in settings and a recompile of world? > > Since I use KDE, I always use Okular to view pdf files. =C2=A0I assume KD= E is 64 > bit ready. Absolutely 64-bit ready. I'm in it right now. ;-) - Mark