On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: ... > Unless you are planning to run only stripped-down systems, that can > cause trouble. A lot of packages do not have 64-bit versions Quite a big leap from this (lots of packages, cause trouble, ..) > and need > (lots of) 32-bit support packages and libraries to run. E.g., web > browsers (whose 64-bit versions run just fine until you need a plug-in > that's only available in 32-bit versions). ...to this (problem when you need a 3rd party browser plugin that's not available in 64-bit). I run many machines just fine with very few ix86 packages (glibc as the op also mentioned can be nice to have around..). IMHO having lots of 32-bit packages causes more problems than it's worth (as a default). /Peter > Just a comment - I don't have a specific solution (yet). > > mhr
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