On 4 March 2010 09:15, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Donnerstag 04 März 2010, Stroller wrote: > >> >> I'd be really quite happy if I knew that this decision was revocable - >> if I could choose "no-multilib" now and change my mind using eselect >> later. Presumably I can choose to keep these 32-bit libs for the >> moment & blow them away if I find I don't need them - this lib32 is, >> after all, in the stage3-amd64-*tar.bz2, so what is the point in >> offering me "no-multilib" if I can't do that? > > you can not change on the fly. going from no-multilib to multilib means re- > installation. > no-multilib is meant for the very brave or people who know exactly that they > never need 32bit apps on that box. > > Your manpages will take up more space then those few 32bit emul libs that > might or not be installed. So there is no downside going multilib.
Yep, that was my decision too for a desktop installation. If I were building a slim server and checked that all apps required are available as 64bit I might have chosen a no-multilib profile. For anything else I probably wouldn't. -- Regards, Mick
