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 1NpVgq-0001Kt-DO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:51:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC573E0BF0; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f176.google.com (mail-yw0-f176.google.com [209.85.211.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C1AE0BF0 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh6 with SMTP id 6so4224120ywh.16 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:51:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=DcjmN7RGgfQ61bVT7ZQ9iZDt85tMUtrr+dW+9NlyPq4=; b=gAbYjX0/UzsW7sA7/foUI4XZLP2AqrFK6vt242718zzcYPuUAnrsh74i2FGOdR9r9W eanAyecOJKEzz86v3c5po6NTocZLCDhmgNe1P7zVdE1l4xZgtkBxkZ3SkJq64f0AdDO0 71l2Bri44dfupNkeUbpUSG0xqf1ERP6nLcqgI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=nel86lHtAwHdCnUD4eNb3VUwu2FPLbmlFFJKCog4oZaLUtYNCphmvH4YouSwTKU6a0 QZXamx3LcNojVtL+2XLB2F3LK/ZfaMZVqSdTdjRJd8yrxczkK160UyWaRj6QYB9DFqtk 6xyZxGf72O21nsf3JfQzc7DTuYqoG9woT1MY4= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.151.124.1 with SMTP id b1mr1892878ybn.106.1268265070383; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:51:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <358eca8f1003101513s3500be75naf3e9e1a91b22a36@mail.gmail.com> References: <358eca8f1003101513s3500be75naf3e9e1a91b22a36@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:51:10 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: a9504242009431b5 Message-ID: <58965d8a1003101551r3b88d7e4j540289dbfe27e10b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing adobe flash on 64bit arch From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: f628245d-d25d-4864-b6a1-8f3fc897bb6a X-Archives-Hash: 840ef367a9a2d491a7405cb01a882ea0 On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Mick wrote: > I see in the amd64 FAQs this: > ============================== > Can I get Adobe Flash working? > Yes. Just emerge adobe-flash. Adobe has provided a 64-bit Flash > plugin starting with version 10.0.22.87. If you don't need the 32-bit > plugin, then run echo "www-plugins/adobe-flash -32bit" >> > /etc/portage/package.use. This will install only the 64-bit Flash > plugin. > ============================== > > So that I am clear, why would I want to install flash with both the > 32bit and 64bit USE flags? If there is no reason for both flags, then > should I be disabling the 32bit globally or are there other > circumstances that mean I should only set it so for this package? In the old days, when Flash and Java was only available as 32-bit plug-ins, people also ran 32-bit versions of their browsers (in order to be able to use those plug-ins). In the time since then, we had nspluginwrapper to allow 32-bit plug-ins in 64-bit browsers, and now we have native 64-bit plug-ins. I guess the 32-bit option is still there for people who are still using the old set-up and haven't gone to a totally 64-bit browser yet.