[gentoo-user] Re: This nite's switch to "full multilib"

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-03-30, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:46:54 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> The reason is that somebody wanted their system to be "consistent." I
>> don't think that's a particulary good reason, but that's the nice
>> thing aboug Gentoo.  Everybody gets to decide what is important to
>> them, and build their system accordingly.
>
> It's also practical as it requires no other changes to get your system
> working. However, it is even less efficient than I had envisaged.
>
> ABI_X86="64 32"  emerge --update --deep --changed-use --with-bdeps y
> -pv @world
>
> gives
>
> Total: 237 packages (237 reinstalls),
>
> Whereas:
>
> grep -cv '^#' /etc/portage/package.use/abi_x86_32
>
> gives 119 packages.
>
> So setting it globally would require three times as many packages to be
> rebuilt on this KDE system.

That's roughly what I came up with this morning when I decided to try
installing acroread on one of my XFCE boxes: 81 rebuilds one way, a
handful over 200 the other.

And I think it's at least the third time in the past few months I've
looked up llvm to see what it is and why it's getting built -- I keep
getting it confused with lvm.

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