[Novalug] 64bit vs 32bit

[Joel Fouse]

On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 22:28 -0400, John Franklin wrote:

> 32-bit apps can run happily in an otherwise 64-bit system.  Yes, it  
> means you'll need to install all the 32-bit support libraries, so  
> you'll have two copies of glibc and libnss and the like.  


FWIW, I'm running 64-bit Gentoo w/ the 32-bit libs installed in /lib32
for compatibility stuff.  Currently /lib64 is 41M, and /lib32 is just
shy of 5M.  Even if it was as large as /lib64, on reasonably modern
drives the space cost of having the extra libs around is negligible. 

- Joel
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