2015-05-16 13:20 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>: > On Sat, 16 May 2015 13:10:21 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > I'm afraid I cannot agree with you on this. On older PCs I would >> > rather did not have to install abi_x86_32 for packages that I don't >> > need to. The granular approach suits me better and also aligns >> > better with the light-footed Gentoo approach. >> >> With this "light-footed approach" I had about two full-screen rubbish >> in my /etc/portage/make.conf file and kept adding on almost every >> update. > > Unless your screen is IMAX-sized, two screens of text is a lot more > lightfooted than add extra libraries to nearly 200 packages - and most > of that text is comments anyway. > > As Mick says, you get to choose, but the per-package approach is > definitely lighter on the system. Enabling it globally may be less work > though. I say "may" because when I tried that it introduced some > breakages,
If enabling abi_x86_32 globally may introduce breakages, then the multilib profile is even more broken than I ever thought. :-( > so I went for the per-package approach. > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Things are more like they are today than they ever have been before. Yes, I do remember installing Linux on a brand-new laptop in 2003. I had to compile a new kernel only to get the command prompt. And, to get a graphic interface, I had to wait for a new release of the distribution in 2004. :(
