On 01/21/2015 03:39 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
and ignores the fact the i386 is
a multilibbed/~arched archecture of the x86_64.
Good point, the multilib part of the issue is interesting... and an
important one too.
Not really. The proposal, if it were made and accepted, neither of
which have actually happened, would only affect the availability of an
installer and kernel for i686. That's the only thing that would change.
The x86_64 release would continue to have 32-bit application support.
The proposal is being considered because there really isn't anyone
testing stuff on i686 machines, and problems that affect those machines
take a long time to fix because the maintainers don't have hardware on
which to test, verify, diagnose, and fix those problems. Making it a
secondary arch would communicate that the responsibility for finding and
fixing problems that only affect i686 machines rests with the users who
have that hardware, which is realistically where it already is.
Making the 32 bit release a secondary arch would essentially be nothing
more than being honest about the state of that release. Developers and
maintainers are not using 10+ year old hardware.
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