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 1Nn5Q9-0007f8-5O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:24:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EA2CE0D34; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F8A9E0D34 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so1846588ewy.26 for ; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:24:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=iJ04TWDHY42zVY40aruUQUpzKN1dl2s5mTPK1qfsQSk=; b=q7qLHbaocEThuH14g7IBoyaCuwQop0yCWeYsPu/adXoEDxcD5nFbVatVSMJijrlojc 5+YZVijDtTZ6/LEmwNLzFfOzFnLl087IbC+QdjU0G5JtOA+2WPXdPLOpLebEd538k8gL /LXYT4RB9B2m2G7jzHlsGudgYPmbnfYM4DWVo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; b=rzCj2Fvxr9FmD8cOKaesYcuCX0UmQn0p1KMle6ySS7qTImr5f1kfJHfKYjbNKmKbTq tETCVeD0E3f4I8i192JkPKXgmdQPVAT4FUeEqQQilNijq+mfivDL8KzUfN5A7G4TjnJJ PM+XrDA1fVlMsQeCUs9sjm0sJ1OMip4cBOZjg= Received: by 10.213.2.75 with SMTP id 11mr805813ebi.14.1267687466584; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:24:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from Zeerak.wlan.tnb.aau.dk ([130.225.56.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm154150ewy.10.2010.03.03.23.24.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:24:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:23:04 +0100 From: Zeerak Mustafa Waseem To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b? Message-ID: <20100304072303.GA2577@Zeerak.wlan.tnb.aau.dk> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <008DDC13-5883-4155-A996-64325EFCAA77@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <201003032204.17232.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201003032251.10918.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201003032356.12636.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <87iq9cpovo.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87iq9cpovo.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: ecb7631f-4774-45b0-a581-42ee9f78dde3 X-Archives-Hash: 8154757226fc9c9e89603dd7df4043f3 --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 06:44:27AM +0000, Graham Murray wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: >=20 > > no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multili= b=20 > > profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul libs, i= t will=20 > > pull the stuff in. There is nothing you need to care about. >=20 > What is unsafe about a 64bit only system? Surely if it were unsafe then > Gentoo would not offer no-multilib profiles? I have recently built 2 > systems using a no-multilib profile and have not found any problems, and > expect to start building a third one today. >=20 I completely misread that, I read it as "it is safe to have a 64bit only sy= stem". I ran a no-multilib profile for a couple of weeks which ran fine. This isn'= t a long period of time, I know. But I had absolutely no issues in that per= iod. The only reason I switched back to a multilib profile was because a ma= th program for school couldn't connect to it's core functions on a pure 64-= bit environment.=20 Furthermore, I have multilib flag disabled as standard, but there are some = things (gcc, glibc mainly) where I have set the multilib flag. And I'm not = having any sort of problem with it. --=20 Zeerak Waseem --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLj1/XAAoJEBS1NNgpgWuWZOEH/iaW5woOZ/VfY/VKA+D0CLxP Hz+P15ihZ9elkx04xNE6875VBILsewNOh7mOeL7QTYgl7+ZESUc5KQmmf6X4l0Xu aPNQqFaA4rNQ1QrLL/+vjlDe5V33hk0JsRrKxCROWhvtPlI2t5GyLW5kJQvWBMvb T6bTHDi0A7z++DTrii8nZjvTKZtS5UD6vlZO+NeMM3JmHSUq1ua1Ezm6qTAMXRsD nuC9Eqpx7p7bQzr6tUsirc2/HVBacqMFLRC951a+QREJFy6VIzEyzytgRb+mX7fw J6sZUF6I+oqFintMoCEi8Xr+Y5YBzyXhbW3LZnqAqLu+PQnNGHzZlCRqUpX1O+E= =JaJd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW--