On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > 2009/7/19 Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > [snip] > > but i'm starting to wonder if this is worth the trouble, how much > > *more* i?86 content i'll have to dump on this machine and, most > > importantly, should this be my concern or do i have the right to at > > least *suggest* that the software providers might consider supplying a > > 64-bit toolchain to avoid all this nonsense, for the sake of the > > increasing number of 64-bit systems out there? > > I think they're working on porting to 64 bit, but it's a fair bit of > work. > > If you don't like installing so much i386 packages you could > consider using a mock chroot sandbox, to avoid contaminating" your > main system. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/MockTricks#Using_mock_as_a_chroot_sandbox_tool i may just throw 32-bit f11 on via virtualbox and do it all there. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday "Kernel Newbie Corner" column @ linux.com: http://cli.gs/WG6WYX ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
