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 1Nn7JI-0008PM-Kk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:25:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDC22E0D39; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:25:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com (mail-fx0-f222.google.com [209.85.220.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93DBEE0D39 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:25:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so2611980fxm.26 for ; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:25:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=LCpviv1qT/g0gcOt8vBNyIqcAO1bA+lUfZhPTcOaAGw=; b=SVfsIBs4HQrFx8V8cFiUiZxBrHzrNdM7l0m7zA8LJ2LG/ntA6x4m9OEN/hpqrDdpP+ +h/KLxAzl302IvIoQ5ma8rXcYt7IgERM60hZrZ6ARtbjM9PmgNm4VLUzvZWcNE0wURXV 3YWwCA0dDXpojuSnTbWTvxO7HNznUmp8qQC9U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=xi+J1eH2vzDubD/ZwJA5SGbS9LmgBfjKoIAN1MnFn4KFXkn3rv2Y0Am9NzJm7arDZs 70PeDnRIaFYF3z2ZCf6rrSdiOciI+12pZRjkxNM7OTd2I85pgX3AIKnPT1pQ0IH3tHZs 1uPVnOt3jsCwWV68/l5TkyYu1PaARcmit+qUg= Received: by 10.223.60.138 with SMTP id p10mr9750009fah.32.1267694699943; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:24:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (ip-80-226-1-7.vodafone-net.de [80.226.1.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm208070fxm.5.2010.03.04.01.24.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:24:59 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b? Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:15:57 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.32.8r4; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <008DDC13-5883-4155-A996-64325EFCAA77@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <3BB5376C-2909-484D-8780-F9E492754C19@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3BB5376C-2909-484D-8780-F9E492754C19@stellar.eclipse.co.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: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201003041015.58308.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7d4146ef-eac7-449c-95fe-7097ec97b59d X-Archives-Hash: 6f85f1612ad004a2f541f2f27dfccb79 On Donnerstag 04 M=E4rz 2010, Stroller wrote: >=20 > I'd be really quite happy if I knew that this decision was revocable - > if I could choose "no-multilib" now and change my mind using eselect > later. Presumably I can choose to keep these 32-bit libs for the > moment & blow them away if I find I don't need them - this lib32 is, > after all, in the stage3-amd64-*tar.bz2, so what is the point in > offering me "no-multilib" if I can't do that? you can not change on the fly. going from no-multilib to multilib means re- installation. no-multilib is meant for the very brave or people who know exactly that the= y=20 never need 32bit apps on that box. Your manpages will take up more space then those few 32bit emul libs that=20 might or not be installed. So there is no downside going multilib.