On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 02:45 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jeremy Sanders wrote: > > Why not leave it be and suggest people move to the less brain dead x86-64 > > instead? Innovation and legacy support. > > Crazy suggestion: What if we make 32-bit x86 a secondary arch and keep only > x86_64 as primary? ;-) > > Of course, that'd be pretty radical and it's likely too early to do that. > (For example, I'm typing this on a 32-bit-only machine (old Pentium IV from > before EM64T).) It'd also most likely mean to drop multilibs from the > x86_64 repo by default (because the 32-bit stuff would be built as a > secondary arch only). But still, it's food for thought, and I'm pretty sure > there will be a point in time where we'll want to do that, considering that > basically all new non-netbook x86 hardware is x86_64. > > Kevin Kofler > Even though I require i386 multi-libs (Mostly Linux games), I second the above. IMHO, multi-lib can (should?) be replaced by better chroot build/management tools. (Read: sticking all the i386 junk in a skeleton i386 chroot) - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
