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 1SrCfA-0003GB-V8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:38:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96864E07BA; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:38:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f181.google.com (mail-ob0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7620FE0720 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:36:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbup19 with SMTP id up19so960936obb.40 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:36:21 -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=gZSaNqn3gadgrUk+kXMF0+94g8vm3K4lu6dlYBQrMz4=; b=AzmaFUm7jjjwQIbK8iZA05Lh78782nGLq2WzeB/grK7FLeK6At5KH/9kZTojYDH9fj NO5C4wxtWRjHPUGSpmSYzMrwZsO13EeBPxV5VlE0LsyQ4T51r+gcIjcpDWRJ+9RSvgOk cezOoNMnmvrT1VLYsJ2YSbEXSwX+BatiPy8GhdnUh/oos6EnfILGKe4YMnHK8+H0kO6v 91VjrWzfnfRstBqu+DIFCbmeeZ1yLMRWHdhE+/sTViYxYD0issQ3eS3R+exc5EAFwEfn CMd8LZYECnoRdh9Dttdl367hxyV0rwYHb911zVOJOnsQ90E9iWQsc89tiv+EkqS7Q3LP Pdcw== 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 10.182.152.97 with SMTP id ux1mr3122070obb.13.1342550181842; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:36:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.174.37 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:36:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:36:21 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Multilib or not? From: Daniel da Veiga To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4db9359e-f0a4-4e85-8481-e973d56daaea X-Archives-Hash: 4d44701c8be93edb2255aaf31aa3dddf On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Jo=E3o Matos wrote: >> 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.) > I have to agree on that, its just too much work for no apparent gain. Unless we are talking about mission critical systems where we should avoid any point of possible failure, but I guess if it was the case, ZNES wouldn't be installed :D But maybe I'm the wrong person to ask, I still run a 32 bits system, never bothered to go full 64 for the same exact reason above (and since this system is almost 6 years old, with no reinstall, just minor adjustments to hardware changes, I don't plan on a full install so soon). --=20 Daniel da Veiga