On Tuesday 23 Dec 2014 03:44:30 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > 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).
Thanks Andrew, I was afraid that the user will ask one day for some binary or obscure application that *must* use 32bit objects and then I would be faced with a reinstall, or chroot. Therefore, I bit the bullet now and am installing with multilib support. -- Regards, Mick
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