On Samstag 13 März 2010, Duncan wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann posted on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:29:06 +0100 as > > excerpted: > > On Samstag 13 März 2010, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I have been looking into installing wine and a cross dev tool chain. I > >> didn't get much luck, since I have amd64 and I use no-multilib. I found > >> this http://bugs.gentoo.org/269439 and I am wondering if any one can > >> provide an advice. Is it be possible to run wine on amd64 with > >> no-multilib ? > > > > you won't be able to run any 32bit windows app. Which makes wine pretty > > useless. > > FWIW, I have no-multilib, but with the 32-bit compatibility turned on in > the kernel, I'm able to do the 32-bit chroot thing as in the gentoo/amd64 > documentation. >
so you wasted a lot of space. For what benefit again? And - because you seem to lack some understanding. There is no 'dirtying up'. So please, keep your dubios advise down. Chrooting just to be able to run an app is not a good choice, if a few mb of 32bit libs, residing in /usr/lib32 would be all that is needed. > It's a bit more work to keep updated than a multilib install, yeah, that too. So lets keep honest, ok? no-multilib+chroot means more work on maintenance, more work to set up. More compiling, more disk space wasted for... zero benefits. Hm, yeah, sounds really great.
