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 1BC0113888F for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:48:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D6DEE08D5; Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:48:26 +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 4B533E089B for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:48:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye3pU-0001Ng-0z for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 17:48:20 +0200 Received: from c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([24.118.110.103]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 17:48:19 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 17:48:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: multilib - do I need it? Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:47:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20150403013014.GA22487@waltdnes.org> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: 06e34905-f4d3-4d28-a2eb-74a36b230191 X-Archives-Hash: ced4bdb3e4bd0040656222c82945ddae On 2015-04-03, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:12:40PM -0300, Francisco Ares wrote >> Hi, >> >> How does one know previously which packages will require 32 bit ABI ? >> >> I have two systems (among others) to consider: one is very simple, built >> using as fewer packages as possible, it is the development system for an >> embedded equipment, and it is 64 bit ABI only - no multilib; the other is >> a general purpose workstation, with lots of packages, and someday, by some >> forgotten reason, I needed to install emul-linux-* . > > Can you attach your /var/lib/portage/world file to a post here? I > assume you have nothing embarressing in it. Almost all applications > that used to require 32-bit emulation now run natively on 64-bit > no-multilib. I recently upgraded a 7+ year old machine from 32-bit > Gentoo to 64-bit-only Gentoo (no-multilib) and I don't have any apps > with problems as 64-bit only. The only two 32-bit apps I've run into on my various XFCE machines are grub-legacy (which requires a 32-bit ncurses lib), and acroread (which requires 100+ 32-bit libraries). -- Grant