Re: [gentoo-user] multilib - do I need it?

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:12:40PM -0300, Francisco Ares wrote
> Hi,
> 
> How does one know previously which packages will require 32 bit ABI ?
> 
> I have two systems (among others) to consider: one is very simple, built
> using as fewer packages as possible, it is the development system for an
> embedded equipment, and it is 64 bit ABI only - no multilib;  the other is
> a general purpose workstation, with lots of packages, and someday, by some
> forgotten reason, I needed to install emul-linux-* .

  Can you attach your /var/lib/portage/world file to a post here?  I
assume you have nothing embarressing in it.  Almost all applications
that used to require 32-bit emulation now run natively on 64-bit
no-multilib.  I recently upgraded a 7+ year old machine from 32-bit
Gentoo to 64-bit-only Gentoo (no-multilib) and I don't have any apps
with problems as 64-bit only.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications