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 1EAtDO-0004Y6-D2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:51:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81HlVIC021701; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:47:31 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 j81HiSv9005318 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:44:28 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAt9M-0002hO-GC for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:46:56 +0000 Received: (qmail 16982 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2005 13:41:20 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 1 Sep 2005 13:41:20 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:47:11 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050901171028.GW18440@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> <200509011923.58239@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <43173CC8.4090606@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <43173CC8.4090606@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509011347.11792.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: c3a7125c-3a76-4dfa-b169-fc10920147a5 X-Archives-Hash: ebf26c39d22ffae4aec470b25e8be9dc 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list