Re: [gentoo-user] multilib - do I need it?

2015-04-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 03 April 2015 01:30:53 Walter Dnes wrote: Bad news for Virtualbox... == [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv virtualbox These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done!

Re: [gentoo-user] multilib - do I need it?

2015-04-02 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] multilib - do I need it?

2015-04-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 02 April 2015 21:30:14 Walter Dnes wrote: 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. Do you have Flash? If that runs on no-multilib I'd consider switching to that

Re: [gentoo-user] multilib - do I need it?

2015-04-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:44:04AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote On Thursday 02 April 2015 21:30:14 Walter Dnes wrote: 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. Do you have

[gentoo-user] multilib - do I need it?

2015-04-02 Thread Francisco Ares
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

Re: [gentoo-user] multilib - do I need it?

2015-04-02 Thread Mick
On Thursday 02 Apr 2015 18:12:40 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