From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAtVO-0002Lb-D1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:09:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81I5pJM002650; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:05:51 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81Hwr1H020178 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:58:54 GMT Received: from bl7-64-18.dsl.telepac.pt ([85.240.64.18]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EAtNJ-00065v-NZ for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:01:22 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 From: Luis Medinas To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200509011347.11792.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <20050901171028.GW18440@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> <200509011923.58239@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <43173CC8.4090606@gentoo.org> <200509011347.11792.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:58:31 +0000 Message-Id: <1125601111.14483.22.camel@darksystem> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 986ab1a7-ffa1-4609-98fd-0f8a5c97aa0a X-Archives-Hash: 3ea8dab9b90bf3250f2ccf33a1f3d261 On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 13:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 01 September 2005 01:39 pm, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > > There are too many packages that works *just* on x86, both at source and > > > binary level. > > > > Doesn't the amd64 team have a set of 32-bit compat libs just to run > > binary packages? When running 32-bit code, isn't amd64 basically just a > > glorified athlon-xp? > > yes, assuming user wants that ... not everyone wants multilib crap on their > machine ... i know i'd prefer to have a 100% non-multilib system if i could > get away with it > -mike Remember that some users still want to run 32bits apps and i think multilib is the best way to support both 32 and 64 bits. Our multilib implementation is far one of the best you can find out there. -- Luis Medinas http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,app-cdr -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list