[linux-audio-user] Re: amd64 - distro questions...

Why not use ~x86? Think of the following scenario: * app-theoretical has ~x86 but not ~amd64 in the latest release because it has been reported as unstable by most people.. * app-theoretical depends on lib-theoretical. * You have lib-theoretical installed but it is a version previous to the reqs on this latest release of app-theoretical - many of your programs require this lib - you have a *stable* install of this library. * The new release of lib-theoretical does not work on amd64 and is known to have many issues for many people. Therefore the keyword ~amd64 is not included. You run emerge on app-theoretical with the ~x86 accept flags and it replaces lib-theoretical with something that does not work. Not even updating your programs will fix the issue. It also causes problems when you mix flags like that because of the way emerge chooses to install requirements. You just don't do it or eventually your system will start to act shitty. Gentoo has a good article on this in one of their FAQ or something for the amd64.