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On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:53:06 +0000 Mick wrote: |
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> It used to be the case that adobe flash and other applications would not work |
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> with a no-multilib profile. |
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> However, I was surprised to see that a previous no-multilib installation of |
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> mine was able to play flash in Firefox. So, I thought of asking here if there |
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> is any reason to avoid installing a no-multilib profile these days. What |
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> applications binary (e.g. Skype) or source compiled won't work with no- |
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> multilib? |
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For skype you have to either build qt, X11 and some other libs with |
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multilib support (abi_x86_32) or use emul-linux-x86-* prebuilt |
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packages. Either way your system will end up with 32-bit libraries |
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installed, but in case of multilib they will be optimized for your |
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hardware and use cases (*FLAGS and USE). |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |