From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D8813888F for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2015 05:31:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45D8CE08EF; Fri, 3 Apr 2015 05:30:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 429C1E0877 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2015 05:30:56 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgUFAGvvdVRFpZXQ/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOhb4EIgXUBAQQBOhwoCwsYCRMSDwUlNxqHZqIRiUuCUAYUEAgCAgIdA4M+AzwWgjtjBI1Vh2GFbYhAhFiBOQ X-IPAS-Result: AgUFAGvvdVRFpZXQ/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOhb4EIgXUBAQQBOhwoCwsYCRMSDwUlNxqHZqIRiUuCUAYUEAgCAgIdA4M+AzwWgjtjBI1Vh2GFbYhAhFiBOQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.01,1,1400040000"; d="scan'208";a="115316318" Received: from 69-165-149-208.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.165.149.208]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 03 Apr 2015 01:30:54 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 03 Apr 2015 01:30:53 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 01:30:53 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multilib - do I need it? Message-ID: <20150403053053.GA25182@waltdnes.org> References: <20150403013014.GA22487@waltdnes.org> <4756310.pmZfp3eLCI@wstn> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4756310.pmZfp3eLCI@wstn> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: d9432abf-4b2d-4dcc-9c30-898addffbe92 X-Archives-Hash: 471340a7b7f58e0bdd22f7d53a85b991 On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:44:04AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > On Thursday 02 April 2015 21:30:14 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > 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. > > Do you have Flash? If that runs on no-multilib I'd consider switching to > that profile. Yes, flash works fine. Mind you, it hogs CPU on my over-7-year-old Core 2 duo, but the 32-bit version would also do that, too. > Don't know about VirtualBox though, which I use for WinXP from > time to time. Bad news for Virtualbox... ====================================================================== [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv virtualbox These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "virtualbox" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - app-emulation/virtualbox-9999::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, missing keyword) /usr/portage/profiles/features/64bit-native/package.mask: # AMD64 Team # Mask packages that rely on amd64 multilib ====================================================================== -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications