Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

["tparker@etherstorm.net" <tparker@etherstorm.net>]

On 8/24/2010 5:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> There is no such package. There are only very few -bin packages. In
> other words, "-bin" is not a magic string you append to package names.
>
> As for Wine, the ebuild changed recently to offer both 64bit as well as
> 32bit Wine. I think the binaries are called "wine32" and "wine64". Two
> new USE flags have been introduced to control this: "win32" and "win64".
> By default, both are enabled. If you disable the "win64" USE flag,
> you'll get only the 32bit Wine. And vice versa of course.

Thank you, that helps a great deal. Is it correct that if a program does 
have a -bin package I can emerge that and have it work as a 32 bit 
program in the 64 bit environment (and the same with wine32)?

Thank you for your patience explaining such probably simple stuff to a 
newbie. Even reading through the documents ahead of time gentoo seems to 
take a bit to wrap your brain around, but I love it so far and am 
learning a ton. :)