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On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:08 PM, João Matos <jaoneto@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi list. |
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> I've been using gentoo amd64 multilib for at least five year, and the system |
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> is working pretty well. But the recent discussion about 64 bit over 32 made |
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> me wonder about changing the profile to a non-multilib. |
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> So I run 'revdep-rebuild --verbose' just to check what do I have that still |
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> depends on emul-linux-x86* and I've found: |
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> app-emulation/wine-1.4 |
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> sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 |
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> www-plugins/google-talkplugin-2.1.7.0 |
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> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.59 |
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> games-emulation/zsnes-1.51-r2 |
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> skype |
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> I suppose that I'll have no problem with wine or nvidia-drivers based on |
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> preview discussion. But how about grub, zsnes, skype or some .bin games |
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> installed outside portage, like Aminesia? |
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Don't know. |
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> I'm assuming that I'll also have no problems with codecs, because since I |
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> compiled mplayer with vdpau support I can play all video stuff with it. |
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There will be some codecs which mplayer doesn't support. Stuff whose |
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particular spec has been lost to time, missing documentation and |
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win32codecs. That will continue to be the case until the |
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reverse-engineering geeks find time and samples to cover the |
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remainder. |
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Honestly, I don't see much of a point to getting rid of multilib, |
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unless you're looking for some sense of systemic purity. I do know |
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people who do that. (But they also avoid anything closed-source, which |
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certainly helps.) |
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:wq |
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