Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > By merging all the packages into one big collection we can't > segregate "Extras" and "Core" anymore for decisions such as build for ppc64 > or not. Every package will build for every arch unless explicitly told not > to, and if told, there is supposed to be bug regarding this according to our > guidelines (which you wanted IIRC). AFAIK, not building a ppc64 version should not be a "bug", indeed it likely should be the default. 32-bit code runs faster than 64-bit code on that arch, and so the only reason to build 64-bit is if you really need access to more than 4Gb of address space. There are apps that need that, but not all that many. So my position is that libraries should generally be built in both flavors (since they can't predict which flavor of executable might want them) but applications should be built as 32-bit unless there's a good reason why they need a 64-bit address space. (If you ask me, the interesting question here is why the other arches don't behave the same way. Any reasonably competent hardware design should have the property that doubling the bit-volume of traffic to main memory has a penalty...) regards, tom lane -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
