On Donnerstag 04 März 2010, Stroller wrote:

>
> I'd be really quite happy if I knew that this decision was revocable -
> if I could choose "no-multilib" now and change my mind using eselect
> later. Presumably I can choose to keep these 32-bit libs for the
> moment & blow them away if I find I don't need them - this lib32 is,
> after all, in the stage3-amd64-*tar.bz2, so what is the point in
> offering me "no-multilib" if I can't do that?

you can not change on the fly. going from no-multilib to multilib means re-
installation.
no-multilib is meant for the very brave or people who know exactly that they
never need 32bit apps on that box.

Your manpages will take up more space then those few 32bit emul libs that
might or not be installed. So there is no downside going multilib.

On 4 March 2010 09:15, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Donnerstag 04 März 2010, Stroller wrote:
>
>>
>> I'd be really quite happy if I knew that this decision was revocable -
>> if I could choose "no-multilib" now and change my mind using eselect
>> later. Presumably *I can choose to keep these 32-bit libs for the
>> moment & blow them away if I find I don't need them - this lib32 is,
>> after all, in the stage3-amd64-*tar.bz2, so what is the point in
>> offering me "no-multilib" if I can't do that?
>
> you can not change on the fly. going from no-multilib to multilib means re-
> installation.
> no-multilib is meant for the very brave or people who know exactly that they
> never need 32bit apps on that box.
>
> Your manpages will take up more space then those few 32bit emul libs that
> might or not be installed. So there is no downside going multilib.

Yep, that was my decision too for a desktop installation. If I were
building a slim server and checked that all apps required are
available as 64bit I might have chosen a no-multilib profile. For
anything else I probably wouldn't.
--
Regards,
Mick

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 08:56:34AM +0000, Stroller wrote

> I could imagine that web-browsers might need 32-bit support in order
> to play Flash

If you're brave, there's an alpha (as in pre-beta, not the CPU) 64-bit
plugin for linux at...
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html

> but can you suggest other applications which might?

Realplayer, or any other proprietary plugin.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>