On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Gilboa Davara<gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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) chroot for building apps is fine but its not really a replacement for multilib if you want to run apps. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
