From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A84B6138CD8 for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 21:25:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4CCDE089C; Wed, 27 May 2015 21:25:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 90630E086B for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 21:25:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yxip0-0004ev-KH for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2015 23:25:06 +0200 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 ; Wed, 27 May 2015 23:25:06 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 23:25:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: General weirdness - a tale of woe. Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 21:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <2988031.1MpZN5Nf01@wstn> <20150527210927.701eccb8@digimed.co.uk> <201505272131.25038.michaelkintzios@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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.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; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1) X-Archives-Salt: b703571a-2b3e-4b71-a2b3-b842d4be2eac X-Archives-Hash: 05d8f11c72c044662d50b52e7798789e Mick gmail.com> writes: > > Your problem is different but has been covered in previous threads, as > > well as the news item. You could add ABI_X86="32 64" to make.conf, but > > that won't fit in with your desire for minimalism. So you need to run > > emerge with --autounmask-write then run etc-update or equivalent to > > apply the changes to package.use. > > Only to add that maintainers are regularly updating packages and this is why > you may find that suddenly new packages require USE="abi_x86_32", when a week > ago they didn't. > > It is worth noting that one multilib box of mine has not asked me (yet) to set > USE="abi_x86_32" on any of its packages, while my laptop is regularly > prompting me to do so. I have concluded that the former has no packages which > are using 32bit code, while the latter does (I know that at least Skype is a > culprit). > > So in extremis you could I guess purge any 32bit coded packages from your PC > and the "abi_x86_32" prompts should leave you alone. I shouldn't forget to > add your usual disclaimer: "YMMV" > Well, here are my extensions found in the make.conf, of interests:: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --autounmask-write y" It been in there a while. However, I must "fess up" that often it does not work and i have to issue --autounmask-write manually followed up by etc-update. Maybe I need to do this all at once, but for @system or something? I did not want to build all of those 32 bit libraries, but maybe that is necessary? How can I get the listing of packages that need those 32 bit libs? Maybe that the way to go? It just seems like I keep cleaning this up over and over again. James