From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8DB138CCA for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:13:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18973E090F; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-f170.google.com (mail-qc0-f170.google.com [209.85.216.170]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EF89FE08B0 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:13:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qcbjx9 with SMTP id jx9so65249903qcb.0 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 02:13:02 -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:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YutL4eDCoBEcckmMcz29NwM9put4pWUC/5KuU13aUWU=; b=il+dCRLz7b/gdVYH3vHJGAOTfwUFukPgcH46mYiiTNEC0wtQGRsYzIhk3ydCyN8dyO SQyVOFXGrOAy2DTgxyXEYgCTDZ5/Wtllgw34s/+9v7ia2WECwKleW1YLuDTF1sJ0yQHl OAP86lha3e1egjJ0oAGW6pi2paAY36h9zq0GAO90Vg9IsK1lSy/hJojNx11WGOLLbwpc 8/p20j8amEchoyw4eSlFNZZ6zAvISvq/zQbcXRDGYxBTXAuuuCfv6u8sBuar7oCogg+w x2qjycTsiXcgN8dGLad5+bZR78pphBPuTL9krqyxD0EpjNJro1r7X46V759sBrW97T0Z hfew== X-Received: by 10.55.55.8 with SMTP id e8mr65852609qka.9.1427706782365; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 02:13:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-117-248.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.117.248]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id o17sm7302438qko.49.2015.03.30.02.13.01 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Mar 2015 02:13:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5519139B.7020400@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 04:12:59 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 SeaMonkey/2.32 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] This nite's switch to "full multilib" References: <5517CCCC.90800@seismic.de> <201503291722.00507.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <55183166.6000205@gmail.com> <201503291830.25834.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <55183C0E.2010600@xunil.at> <55184177.7030601@gmail.com> <5518785B.3040704@xunil.at> <551881EA.7040705@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <551881EA.7040705@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b222e536-9f21-4cf6-a27d-444a5a92cf42 X-Archives-Hash: 05c7b39e75a59552901c6dcf084b3b22 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 30/03/2015 00:10, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 29.03.2015 um 20:16 schrieb Alan McKinnon: >> >>>> I have to do that for 195 ebuilds here and really wonder if that is >>>> correct in the end .... >>> >>> >>> It's a horrible solution, you are right. The problem is that it's not >>> your 32 bit apps that have to be listed, it's all the libs and deps they >>> have that need 32 bit versions to be built. >>> >>> If you have a fast cpu, much disk space and don't care about using some >>> extra resources, you can always add USE="abi_xx86_32" to make.conf and >>> make it global. Every package that supports building 32 bit versions >>> will then be recompiled. >> Is that as it is meant to be or some not-so-ideal-switch that will soon >> get some polishing? >> >> IMO I shouldn't have to list hundreds of packages (I had to add more and >> more) in some non-default-list ... even when I decide to run unstable >> (~amd64). >> >> My main system isn't that special at all, gnome, systemd, libreoffice, >> thunderbird, some browsers ... >> >> Stuff like that makes me really wonder if I spend too much of my life >> time struggling with doing *updates* >> >> I like Gentoo, you all know, but things like that scare me off a bit. > This is Gentoo, it's all about choice. Sometimes there's a downside, > like a very long package.use to define to Portage exactly what your > choice really is. > > Setting the flag globally is covered in today's news item on the matter, > so I assume the devs are supporting it > > Dang. I had to add about 90 packages to my package.use and some more to the keyword file. I wonder if make.conf would be better in my case too? My use file just grew my a huge amount. Dale :-) :-)