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 1Nn9lh-0003cH-9H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:03:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEF26E0CDB; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:02:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com (mail-bw0-f219.google.com [209.85.218.219]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96393E0CDB for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:02:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so1688186bwz.26 for ; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:02:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=HpRockbMV5nvLFpY6L9t1unyQiLHXNrDiG8FRR0gXTw=; b=IuGVGtnTmfhx0RoXvzagDEIiLlMTEZuqztNBAc1a6jnDFyX47jUyCwrSWDRWMCg7gr 7IxVG3L0nzPiXdoqJGN+BKnaZP4TDEx2v+frP8LA2U2C7iwqQO1ti/iSQymfDvOHA8iD jVcLlC6woXtMLSULxEpGQCXdDWAb+UaukTemw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=xVIh+i3pZN0HGKwHLAfXdwX3GFQSDL9UsozoF2xKuvsTZV7eiO/RCMpR2R9dHoEz9/ NVA9ssyrMjwT3a+VfeoooAUKz74W2MPpLJh8obNZ2wyGvq4BYbmSozg6DFZSJRqFJL0s GjJ9SyUpoAxAW9Tv5VlYjI+sfjpIBf+AQM6Iw= 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 Received: by 10.102.206.2 with SMTP id d2mr98014mug.122.1267704159740; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:02:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201003041015.58308.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> References: <008DDC13-5883-4155-A996-64325EFCAA77@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <3BB5376C-2909-484D-8780-F9E492754C19@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <201003041015.58308.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:02:39 +0000 Message-ID: <358eca8f1003040402m2360a90bod2904cb44a207527@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b? From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 77c03e74-bb9f-4fac-ba0d-54f7120030fa X-Archives-Hash: d1558cafc3f485b51296259a2eea7700 On 4 March 2010 09:15, Volker Armin Hemmann wr= ote: > On Donnerstag 04 M=E4rz 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 =A0I 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 r= e- > installation. > no-multilib is meant for the very brave or people who know exactly that t= hey > 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. --=20 Regards, Mick