On 2015-04-03, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:12:40PM -0300, Francisco Ares wrote >> Hi, >> >> How does one know previously which packages will require 32 bit ABI ? >> >> I have two systems (among others) to consider: one is very simple, built >> using as fewer packages as possible, it is the development system for an >> embedded equipment, and it is 64 bit ABI only - no multilib; the other is >> a general purpose workstation, with lots of packages, and someday, by some >> forgotten reason, I needed to install emul-linux-* . > > Can you attach your /var/lib/portage/world file to a post here? I > assume you have nothing embarressing in it. Almost all applications > that used to require 32-bit emulation now run natively on 64-bit > no-multilib. 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.
The only two 32-bit apps I've run into on my various XFCE machines are grub-legacy (which requires a 32-bit ncurses lib), and acroread (which requires 100+ 32-bit libraries). -- Grant
