From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:02:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <358eca8f1003040402m2360a90bod2904cb44a207527@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003041015.58308.volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
On 4 March 2010 09:15, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Donnerstag 04 März 2010, Stroller wrote:
>
>>
>> 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 they
> never need 32bit apps on that box.
>
> Your manpages will take up more space then those few 32bit emul libs that
> might or not be installed. So there is no downside going multilib.
Yep, that was my decision too for a desktop installation. If I were
building a slim server and checked that all apps required are
available as 64bit I might have chosen a no-multilib profile. For
anything else I probably wouldn't.
--
Regards,
Mick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-04 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-03 15:29 [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b? Stroller
2010-03-03 15:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 17:04 ` Stroller
2010-03-03 20:04 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 22:50 ` Mick
2010-03-03 22:56 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-03-04 6:44 ` Graham Murray
2010-03-04 7:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-03-04 8:16 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-03-04 8:56 ` Stroller
2010-03-04 9:15 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-03-04 12:02 ` Mick [this message]
2010-03-05 1:52 ` Walter Dnes
2010-03-04 7:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-03-04 7:30 ` Alan McKinnon
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