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 1Nn4oU-000502-2m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:45:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9390E0B85; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 06:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (newton.gmurray.org.uk [81.2.114.237]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7EAE0B85 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 06:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o246iRh5003038 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 06:44:27 GMT X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.0.0 newton.gmurray.org.uk o246iRh5003038 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmurray.org.uk; s=in200703; t=1267685067; bh=r1Uh5GU3VocR7YimDDXRzwJZlzJXExXF+juuMTuvhjc=; l=547; h=From:To:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=gRXcovsXahnB+KFyGc/9RQIeFv9ir4INnlVXYgGrQVW80rQerp91m1+8/BlcZxrgv 0knxCKGGuHEQjG41DBfCQEDR/tf/PijCEO4gvj5amL0U6EMKXJtIKfktdlrJ+8vBp5 nNkwDOaHRYVWtyXXDtMWe+lCpoq1wjh2f66lAhks= X-BATV: Sendmail BATV Filter v0.4.0 newton o246iRh5003038 Received: (from graham@localhost) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o246iRwc003037; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 06:44:27 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: newton.gmurray.org.uk: graham set sender to graham@gmurray.org.uk using -f From: Graham Murray To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b? References: <008DDC13-5883-4155-A996-64325EFCAA77@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <201003032204.17232.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201003032251.10918.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201003032356.12636.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:44:27 +0000 In-Reply-To: <201003032356.12636.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> (Volker Armin Hemmann's message of "Wed, 3 Mar 2010 23:56:12 +0100") Message-ID: <87iq9cpovo.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.93 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at newton X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: a0fbade4-5ff8-4b06-ac17-dcc4baddbc05 X-Archives-Hash: 0b092d502896bc071fd3369c0bdd6c45 Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib > profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul libs, it will > pull the stuff in. There is nothing you need to care about. What is unsafe about a 64bit only system? Surely if it were unsafe then Gentoo would not offer no-multilib profiles? I have recently built 2 systems using a no-multilib profile and have not found any problems, and expect to start building a third one today.