Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted.
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:05:18
Message-Id: AANLkTi=hBR+DJqphr7ZnOT0wLK2xuAmh=v4mvxFXqYfn@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted. by Dale
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2 > Now I have a question.  How do I tell Gentoo to make it pure 64 or a mix of
3 > 32 and 64?  I have read about this but I don't think I have actually seen
4 > where it is set.  Is it a profile selection, USE flag or something else?
5 >
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7 It's a profile choice. Here's a FAQ link that discusses it.
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9 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml
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11 Thing is it's sort of a choice you want to make once and not change in
12 the future, or so I'm told.
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15 > If I decide on one then want to switch to the other, does that require a
16 > reinstall or just a change in settings and a recompile of world?
17 >
18 > Since I use KDE, I always use Okular to view pdf files.  I assume KDE is 64
19 > bit ready.
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21 Absolutely 64-bit ready. I'm in it right now. ;-)
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23 - Mark