Rosetta 2 Install twice dangers?

[mattdgr8]

I've been using the Macbook Pro M1 for about a month now. It came with Big Sur installed already. (apparently) I've already been using Intel based applications so Rosetta should be installed, although I dont recall ever seeing the dialogue to download it. Long story short, friend came by and executed "/usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta" on terminal and he apparently installed rosetta?

I don't know if it was never installed in the first place (unlikely since I've been using intel-based apps just fine) or did it duplicate the install? And if it's the latter, does that make me prone to bugs or would it take unnecessary storage space?

Thanks guys

 

[CheesePuff]

If the command ran then it most likely just re-installed the same libraries over top of the existing Rosetta 2 install

 

[UBS28]

Your friend gave you double the cpu power now.

 

[mj_]

You may have inadvertently created a blue hole. It's like a black hole but instead of sucking everything in that crosses its Schwarzschild radius it only sucks in cash from nearby wallets and turns it into massive amounts of unneccessary heat. Blue holes can be easily observed in the infrared spectrum so for the sake of humanity and all mankind you may want to inspect your M1 Pro with an infrared camera.