Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> skribis: > In my case I've been slowly converting my machine back to nearly > 100% stable. I don't need anything more than that in my daily work > these days and would greatly prefer fewer updates. In the old days > when I ran a lot of Gentoo pro-audio overlay stuff I stay to stay > leading edge all the time but these days I don't do that and life > should be easier.
A few years ago I proved it is possible to go from ~amd64 to amd64 but often I bump something to ~amd64 to overcome problems. (For instance it turned out libav was being pulled in because the ~amd64 version of ffmpeg I had allowed was no longer in portage. I had to bump the version.) > I was thinking back about my 32-bit usage when I built the machine. > In those days (and it's likely still true) to run Windows VST plugins > you had to have 32-bit support. I was doing a lot of software synth > stuff a decade ago and suspect that was my main need in that area. I > don't intentionally use 32-bit for anything so likely I don't need it > at all as per Frank's comment but I also didn't feel like I really > wanted to deal with that right now. The processor is made to handle 32-bit so better to have it than not, from my point of view. (The whole multilib thing might have gone smoothly years ago, and with nomultilib a trivial difference, if we merely had had the sense to stick with Gentoo’s original filesystem layout for libraries. But this is my view in retrospect. We sometimes pay a big price for following the leads of other distros.)
