On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 13:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 01 September 2005 01:39 pm, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > > There are too many packages that works *just* on x86, both at source and > > > binary level. > > > > Doesn't the amd64 team have a set of 32-bit compat libs just to run > > binary packages? When running 32-bit code, isn't amd64 basically just a > > glorified athlon-xp? > > yes, assuming user wants that ... not everyone wants multilib crap on their > machine ... i know i'd prefer to have a 100% non-multilib system if i could > get away with it > -mike
Remember that some users still want to run 32bits apps and i think multilib is the best way to support both 32 and 64 bits. Our multilib implementation is far one of the best you can find out there. -- Luis Medinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,app-cdr -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
