Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 12:10 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Well, now that I have put abi_x86_32 in make.conf and did those 80
> > packages and fixed the preserved_libs, in my next update it wants to do
> > 199 reinstalls to get every possible package which has that flag -- do I
> > need all that or should I go back to the individual packages, now that
> > things are fixed as far as the libs are concerned? Do I gain anything
> > by having all those packages have that flagg set?
>
> That's up to personal preference. You've already found a few on this
> list telling you that you should just set it in make.conf. You won't
> have trouble finding many others (including me) who will tell you to
> just stick it in package.use when needed only.
>
> The only thing you gain is being able to run 32-bit applications
> against those libraries, even if you don't have any need to. The only
> thing you lose is a bunch of inodes, and maybe some compile time.
Well, that clarifies things a bit -- what is strange is that I had to do
about 70 packages beffore portage would let the preserved-rebuild go
through, for future reference is there an automatic way to add all the
use flags, even the packages which already have other use flags?
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