Maciel: Because your distro should be cool

I agree with this. I'm not using gentoo at the moment, but when I was using it I dan into more than one case where a perl program was only marked for x86, not for amd64 and when I pushed about it I was told that it wasn't enabled because it hadn't had anyone test it there and report that it worked. I reported that it did work, but months later it still hadn't gotten blessed for amd64 (let alone for other architectures)

yes you do have apps that have problems with different word sized and byte orders, but even then, one you know that it works on 32 bit little endian systems, you should be able to have a pretty good confidence that it will work on _all_ 32 bit little endian system (as long as the compile step doesn't barf)