On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:53:06 +0000 Mick wrote: > It used to be the case that adobe flash and other applications would not work > with a no-multilib profile. > > However, I was surprised to see that a previous no-multilib installation of > mine was able to play flash in Firefox. So, I thought of asking here if > there > is any reason to avoid installing a no-multilib profile these days. What > applications binary (e.g. Skype) or source compiled won't work with no- > multilib?
For skype you have to either build qt, X11 and some other libs with multilib support (abi_x86_32) or use emul-linux-x86-* prebuilt packages. Either way your system will end up with 32-bit libraries installed, but in case of multilib they will be optimized for your hardware and use cases (*FLAGS and USE). Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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