On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Frank Peters <frank.pet...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:15:55 -0700 > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yesterday I was emerge -DuN @world clean. It took hours due to Gentoo >> decisions about multilib stuff. >> > > Is it still necessary to be using multilib? > > I've been using pure AMD64 for so long I tend to forget that > 32-bit stuff still exists. > > Frank Peters
Hi Frank, Honestly, I really don't know and figure the answer is probably no, but it was when I set the machine up this way 5 or so years ago. Even today I still see messages from things like Virtualbox drivers saying they are using 32-bit modes, but what do I know? When emerge threw all this stuff at me Sunday I figured I had no reason to break a machine that has been working well so I let it do everything it wanted to do. I don't have any problems with them getting rid of emulation libraries and having everything built into the packages. I just wasn't prepare for the time it required yesterday. If I was to build a machine from scratch today I'd certainly investigate the question more closely but with an i7 980x, 24GB & about 5TB of storage I have no plans on new hardware at this time. Even with 3 Win 7 VMs running I seldom get above about 40% CPU usage. I get close to running out of DRAM at times so I'm careful. My disk subsystem is too slow but I've talked about that in the past. I just haven't done much about it. Cheers, Mark
