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 1NpVOZ-0005rz-7q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:32:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28426E0BB5; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 063DBE0BB5 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C0A1B4005 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:32:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.02 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.02 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.421, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bD9T9PGG02-T for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:32:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD0A51B4049 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:32:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpVNt-00022W-23 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:32:13 +0100 Received: from athedsl-373807.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.12.45]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:32:13 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-373807.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:32:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing adobe flash on 64bit arch Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:32:14 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <358eca8f1003101513s3500be75naf3e9e1a91b22a36@mail.gmail.com> 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-373807.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100307 Thunderbird/3.0.3 In-Reply-To: <358eca8f1003101513s3500be75naf3e9e1a91b22a36@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 41bd4cf1-7c5e-4206-ae7d-71455ec65196 X-Archives-Hash: a29215921bb5b4874cacf11c08c56d22 On 03/11/2010 01:13 AM, 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 you have both 32-bit as well as 64-bit browsers installed. > 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? The 32bit flag is not global. It's only defined and used by the flash ebuild.