On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 06:44:27AM +0000, Graham Murray wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> writes: > > > no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib > > profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul libs, it > > will > > pull the stuff in. There is nothing you need to care about. > > What is unsafe about a 64bit only system? Surely if it were unsafe then > Gentoo would not offer no-multilib profiles? I have recently built 2 > systems using a no-multilib profile and have not found any problems, and > expect to start building a third one today. >
I completely misread that, I read it as "it is safe to have a 64bit only system". I ran a no-multilib profile for a couple of weeks which ran fine. This isn't a long period of time, I know. But I had absolutely no issues in that period. The only reason I switched back to a multilib profile was because a math program for school couldn't connect to it's core functions on a pure 64-bit environment. Furthermore, I have multilib flag disabled as standard, but there are some things (gcc, glibc mainly) where I have set the multilib flag. And I'm not having any sort of problem with it. -- Zeerak Waseem
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