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 1SrCLP-0000Qd-Qi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:18:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60F38E0793; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:17:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 851B4E06FD for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:15:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so685566bkw.40 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:15:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mvxjvJLJHC7YyGE3QFuRaZ0fA2ylRi3oV0KVVEcOUVo=; b=gymXjVGVmoMdzi0hXZtbT+FqT6IYvwr8OFwlfIcjZgutUfgFty2ktFL+Zvuklz+4f/ xljJslc5Jly1h2v6gZY/Bek0QvZwn0XYj0ToMh0QFP7lQqxK8132l21j9YpS1jAeOC7t TSf7+G8ojAWaZ4hOJCWUy2pajO4OF+pA5jti9zT8hdpycagzPpv/0YTUOWn9YkOZ9MaY gL6iTzAhgeICHji9NrgZfGrn0BhOWA6tPbHKdPqYh+SghuMWnXu1tZHw5KxcwzaVes1Z aO0K3GsdjVFKbsrH/BGnzxmxtJFajnb6VD0yN2+DUI9Lokh4NgQk+NDvkDKsz2/HXyXQ YFzA== 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 Received: by 10.205.123.9 with SMTP id gi9mr1789337bkc.50.1342548943600; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.10.12 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:15:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:15:43 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Multilib or not? From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: fd8444ef-5c0e-42c5-a77f-d14329102557 X-Archives-Hash: d3090cbf9da6a2b3b36221a835b1c2fc On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Jo=C3=A3o Matos wrote: > > Hi list. > > I've been using gentoo amd64 multilib for at least five year, and the sys= tem > is working pretty well. But the recent discussion about 64 bit over 32 ma= de > me wonder about changing the profile to a non-multilib. > > So I run 'revdep-rebuild --verbose' just to check what do I have that sti= ll > 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 > > I suppose that I'll have no problem with wine or nvidia-drivers based on > preview discussion. But how about grub, zsnes, skype or some .bin games > installed outside portage, like Aminesia? Don't know. > I'm assuming that I'll also have no problems with codecs, because since I > compiled mplayer with vdpau support I can play all video stuff with it. There will be some codecs which mplayer doesn't support. Stuff whose particular spec has been lost to time, missing documentation and win32codecs. That will continue to be the case until the reverse-engineering geeks find time and samples to cover the remainder. Honestly, I don't see much of a point to getting rid of multilib, unless you're looking for some sense of systemic purity. I do know people who do that. (But they also avoid anything closed-source, which certainly helps.) --=20 :wq