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 1PzVgu-0002G1-3B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:57:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F57B1C020; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:56:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B921C020 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D8261BC107 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:56:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.537 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.537 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.062, 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 6491NMpwUewh for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F6D1BC108 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:56:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PzVfN-0003En-Dy for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:56:09 +0100 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:56:09 +0100 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:56:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Live 11.0 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:55:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.17) Gecko/20110311 Gentoo/2.0.12 SeaMonkey/2.0.12) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: af43d958aef791166b0ae856daade603 Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > Hybrid runs on either 32-bit or 64-bit hardware. > MultilLib requires 64-bit hardware. Thanks Mark, Yep, got that. There is no "hybrid" profile? Not that I can find. Is what about all those 32 bit goodies like plugins window-compatibility-software etc etc? So the only real question is does my amd64 machines need hybrid in some circumstances, like depending of the software that I run? If so, is there a listing of software that needs the 32 bit support? eselect profile list: [1] default/linux/amd64/10.0 [2] default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop [3] default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome [4] default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde * [5] default/linux/amd64/10.0/developer [6] default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib [7] default/linux/amd64/10.0/server [8] hardened/linux/amd64 [9] hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib [10] selinux/2007.0/amd64 [11] selinux/2007.0/amd64/hardened [12] selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64 [13] selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64/desktop [14] selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64/developer [15] selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64/hardened [16] selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64/server Is this the profile [6] or [9] the hybrid, indicating that "hybrid" means "no-multilib", strictly ? Are servers affected (profile choice) by this hybrid-mulitlib issue, or just work-stations? Are AMD64 systems set up to be multilib by defaut; say for example if I set the profile to [1] ? Where do I read up on this issue of multilib versus hybrid? I find tidbits, but no discussion, overview or focus on the choices and when a user should select one over the other, beyond support for 32 bit software. If I recall correctly there are a plethora of software issues related to browsers, video(media) and things like flash that may depend on 32 bit software plugins or support? I'm not really up on this choice and the implications of decision. When will we see new profile choices (no sync in a week or so)? James