On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:44:04AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > On Thursday 02 April 2015 21:30:14 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > I recently upgraded a 7+ year old machine from 32-bit Gentoo to 64-bit- > > only Gentoo (no-multilib) and I don't have any apps with problems as 64- > > bit only. > > Do you have Flash? If that runs on no-multilib I'd consider switching to > that profile.
Yes, flash works fine. Mind you, it hogs CPU on my over-7-year-old Core 2 duo, but the 32-bit version would also do that, too. > Don't know about VirtualBox though, which I use for WinXP from > time to time. Bad news for Virtualbox... ====================================================================== [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv virtualbox These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "virtualbox" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - app-emulation/virtualbox-9999::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, missing keyword) /usr/portage/profiles/features/64bit-native/package.mask: # AMD64 Team <am...@gentoo.org> # Mask packages that rely on amd64 multilib ====================================================================== -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
