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 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SrDTb-0002Me-Ml for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:30:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41848E078A; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:30:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727A4E04D6 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:28:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhp26 with SMTP id 26so852546yhp.40 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:28:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=y/G09VzbERAvHu7HeCTZWK3JscIYCihxqPqZpuxYDK8=; b=OIplUllyrZ3XGQ5n6Bp8yXAomyPgaTp0+KCv977qhxf5A9M3Kb1yk3Uj9IX1ePaqgL ehupFxvPrmpTPcotojJDdewpncZkJ4hdX6UkQ5EEZYV6cFSsBc+yzkqQ7l8dVeku0Fk4 yBXozYCDuW6vBgu8ZIbeCYAvTCE1nOyTRJVcmNJKbQcSXoB3mcVf+7h8DWya/frv8PhT oG7CeutwFIKy1tSEGbHDhu6XgM1M4lMfjSUgdP7bJW1ZbKcDb7MCedFfbXWqewnGVROJ tLaYb9uCVxl0YuGlNCclGj2d83s51XSPgvQZUgSqj3J0Cp8gJ9wz502pHWxBhhHZYo3a 9nJg== Received: by 10.236.181.99 with SMTP id k63mr2922518yhm.89.1342553308905; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-149-202.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.149.202]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e24sm36107727yhh.4.2012.07.17.12.28.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5005BCDA.6070601@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:28:26 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120628 Firefox/13.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.10.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Multilib or not? References: <5005B46E.9070606@hadt.biz> In-Reply-To: <5005B46E.9070606@hadt.biz> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9c991da9-189f-4364-91e4-a44a9fe17f77 X-Archives-Hash: e5882083a345e762ce874bf6dca98eb9 Michael Hampicke wrote: >> So I run 'revdep-rebuild --verbose' just to check what do I have that still >> depends on emul-linux-x86* and I've found: >> >> app-emulation/wine-1.4 >> sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 >> www-plugins/google-talkplugin-2.1.7.0 >> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.59 >> games-emulation/zsnes-1.51-r2 >> skype >> > For grub you could use grub-static or grub2. I have some 64bit > no-multilib servers that run grub-static without problems. > > But I have to agree with Mike here, I really don't see why one would use > a no-multilib profile on a desktop machine :) > > When I did my install on this new rig, I installed grub-static and so far, it has worked fine. I haven't jumped off the cliff with grub2 yet. I also chose multi-lib when I did this install. The only complaint so far was flash but when has it ever really been stable to begin with? o_O I have to also mention, 64 bit does seem to use more memory. It's not a whole lot but it is noticeable. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!