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On 2015-04-03, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:12:40PM -0300, Francisco Ares wrote |
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>> Hi, |
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>> How does one know previously which packages will require 32 bit ABI ? |
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>> I have two systems (among others) to consider: one is very simple, built |
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>> using as fewer packages as possible, it is the development system for an |
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>> embedded equipment, and it is 64 bit ABI only - no multilib; the other is |
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>> a general purpose workstation, with lots of packages, and someday, by some |
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>> forgotten reason, I needed to install emul-linux-* . |
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> Can you attach your /var/lib/portage/world file to a post here? I |
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> assume you have nothing embarressing in it. Almost all applications |
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> that used to require 32-bit emulation now run natively on 64-bit |
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> no-multilib. I recently upgraded a 7+ year old machine from 32-bit |
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> Gentoo to 64-bit-only Gentoo (no-multilib) and I don't have any apps |
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> with problems as 64-bit only. |
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The only two 32-bit apps I've run into on my various XFCE machines are |
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grub-legacy (which requires a 32-bit ncurses lib), and acroread (which |
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requires 100+ 32-bit libraries). |
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Grant |
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