On 8/24/2010 5:46 PM, tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote:
On 8/24/2010 5:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
There is no such package. There are only very few -bin
packages. In
other words, "-bin" is not a magic string you append to
package names.
As for Wine, the ebuild changed recently to offer both
64bit as well as
32bit Wine. I think the binaries are called "wine32" and
"wine64". Two
new USE flags have been introduced to control this:
"win32" and "win64".
By default, both are enabled. If you disable the "win64"
USE flag,
you'll get only the 32bit Wine. And vice versa of course.
Thank you, that helps a great deal. Is it correct that if a
program does have a -bin package I can emerge that and have
it work as a 32 bit program in the 64 bit environment (and
the same with wine32)?
Generally speaking, yes -- if everything is set up properly
with the package in portage, that will be true. However, in
many of those cases there's also a source package that
builds and runs equally well on 64-bit OS's, so using the
-bin package should be done only if there's a specific
reason to. Currently, for example, many people are using
the firefox-bin or chromium-bin packages because of issues
with Adobe Flash Player.
--Mike
