Re: i686 as secondary arch?

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On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 12:10:03PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 07/05/2016 10:57 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >
> >> If you need to run an i686 virtual machine based on Rawhide, my
> >> experience is that it's more likely than not that it won't boot, and
> >> no one cares.
> >
> >
> > Well, that's independent for the state as primary vs secondary architecture.
> >
> > If we remove i686 as a primary architecture, we will not have i686 packages
> > in the x86_64 repository.  Is this what we want?
> 
> We're in the process of redefining what constitutes a secondary arch
> and this is part of that consideration. There's a bunch of proprietary
> common third party tools/apps that people rely on that still need i686
> around.

wine on x86_64 pulls in the i686 packages too, so it is not just closed
source stuff requiring i686. I don't see it being viable to drop support
for i686 on x86_64 any time soon.


Regards,
Daniel
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