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On 4 Mar 2010, at 07:19, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 03/04/2010 08:44 AM, Graham Murray wrote: |
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>> Volker Armin Hemmann<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> writes: |
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>>> no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the |
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>>> multilib |
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>>> profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul |
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>>> libs, it will |
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>>> pull the stuff in. There is nothing you need to care about. |
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>> What is unsafe about a 64bit only system? Surely if it were unsafe |
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>> then |
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>> Gentoo would not offer no-multilib profiles? I have recently built 2 |
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>> systems using a no-multilib profile and have not found any |
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>> problems, and |
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>> expect to start building a third one today. |
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> You didn't understand the question Volker was replying to. The |
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> question was not about "safe" as in "security", but rather "safe" as |
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> in "I can rest assured that a no-multilib system can run every |
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> software I could install", which is clearly not the case since some |
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> applications need 32-bit support. |
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I could imagine that web-browsers might need 32-bit support in order |
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to play Flash, but can you suggest other applications which might? |
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This is a headless server, and I was kinda reassured by Alan's |
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response (Wed, 3 Mar 2010 22:04:17 +0200) [1] that seemed to assure me |
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that a statically linked 32-bit binary would work fine if I selected |
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the "no-multilib" profile. |
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I'd be really quite happy if I knew that this decision was revocable - |
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if I could choose "no-multilib" now and change my mind using eselect |
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later. Presumably I can choose to keep these 32-bit libs for the |
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moment & blow them away if I find I don't need them - this lib32 is, |
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after all, in the stage3-amd64-*tar.bz2, so what is the point in |
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offering me "no-multilib" if I can't do that? |
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Stroller. |
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[1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_64a30b77742cf5846705952e6129367d.xml |
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http://tinyurl.com/ykvx5co |