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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multilib - do I need it?
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 05:31:04
Message-Id: 20150403053053.GA25182@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] multilib - do I need it? by Peter Humphrey
1 On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:44:04AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote
2 > On Thursday 02 April 2015 21:30:14 Walter Dnes wrote:
3 >
4 > > I recently upgraded a 7+ year old machine from 32-bit Gentoo to 64-bit-
5 > > only Gentoo (no-multilib) and I don't have any apps with problems as 64-
6 > > bit only.
7 >
8 > Do you have Flash? If that runs on no-multilib I'd consider switching to
9 > that profile.
10
11 Yes, flash works fine. Mind you, it hogs CPU on my over-7-year-old
12 Core 2 duo, but the 32-bit version would also do that, too.
13
14 > Don't know about VirtualBox though, which I use for WinXP from
15 > time to time.
16
17 Bad news for Virtualbox...
18
19 ======================================================================
20
21 [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv virtualbox
22
23 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
24
25 Calculating dependencies... done!
26
27 !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "virtualbox" have been masked.
28 !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
29 - app-emulation/virtualbox-9999::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, missing keyword)
30 /usr/portage/profiles/features/64bit-native/package.mask:
31 # AMD64 Team <amd64@g.o>
32 # Mask packages that rely on amd64 multilib
33
34 ======================================================================
35
36 --
37 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
38 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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Re: [gentoo-user] multilib - do I need it? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>