Re: Did devs change phonon flags without rev'ing package?

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Frank Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:15:55 -0700
> Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I was emerge -DuN @world clean. It took hours due to Gentoo
>> decisions about multilib stuff.
>>
>
> Is it still necessary to be using multilib?
>
> I've been using pure AMD64 for so long I tend to forget that
> 32-bit stuff still exists.
>
> Frank Peters

Hi Frank,
   Honestly, I really don't know and figure the answer is probably no,
but it was when I set the machine up this way 5 or so years ago. Even
today I still see messages from things like Virtualbox drivers saying
they are using 32-bit modes, but what do I know? When emerge threw all
this stuff at me Sunday I figured I had no reason to break a machine
that has been working well so I let it do everything it wanted to do.
I don't have any problems with them getting rid of emulation libraries
and having everything built into the packages. I just wasn't prepare
for the time it required yesterday.

   If I was to build a machine from scratch today I'd certainly
investigate the question more closely but with an i7 980x, 24GB &
about 5TB of storage I have no plans on new hardware at this time.
Even with 3 Win 7 VMs running I seldom get above about 40% CPU usage.
I get close to running out of DRAM at times so I'm careful. My disk
subsystem is too slow but I've talked about that in the past. I just
haven't done much about it.

Cheers,
Mark