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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] This nite's switch to "full multilib"
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 22:10:54
Message-Id: 5518785B.3040704@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] This nite's switch to "full multilib" by Alan McKinnon
1 Am 29.03.2015 um 20:16 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
2
3 >> I have to do that for 195 ebuilds here and really wonder if that is
4 >> correct in the end ....
5 >
6 >
7 >
8 > It's a horrible solution, you are right. The problem is that it's not
9 > your 32 bit apps that have to be listed, it's all the libs and deps they
10 > have that need 32 bit versions to be built.
11 >
12 > If you have a fast cpu, much disk space and don't care about using some
13 > extra resources, you can always add USE="abi_xx86_32" to make.conf and
14 > make it global. Every package that supports building 32 bit versions
15 > will then be recompiled.
16
17 Is that as it is meant to be or some not-so-ideal-switch that will soon
18 get some polishing?
19
20 IMO I shouldn't have to list hundreds of packages (I had to add more and
21 more) in some non-default-list ... even when I decide to run unstable
22 (~amd64).
23
24 My main system isn't that special at all, gnome, systemd, libreoffice,
25 thunderbird, some browsers ...
26
27 Stuff like that makes me really wonder if I spend too much of my life
28 time struggling with doing *updates*
29
30 I like Gentoo, you all know, but things like that scare me off a bit.
31
32 Stefan

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Re: [gentoo-user] This nite's switch to "full multilib" Yanestra <wysiwyg@×××××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] This nite's switch to "full multilib" Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>