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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multilib - do I need it?
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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. Don't know about VirtualBox though, which I use for WinXP from 
time to time.

Is there a prescribed route to switching profiles like this?

-- 
Rgds
Peter.