John M. Harris, Jr. wrote: > These are generic servers. I can provide a link to the vendor's website > when I get home. It is not Dell, Lenovo or similar, those are currently > selling mostly x86_64. Additionally, many users don't want to buy a new > computer just because a software project made the decision to randomly > drop support for their architecture. I am certainly one of those. The > hardware is fine, perfect working condition. I don't understand why we > should simply turn these to e-waste because somebody flipped the > proverbial switch. Unfortunately, Fedora has lately become mainly about randomly dropping support for things: * dropping, in short succession, of the i686 kernel, the i686 images, and then even the i686 repositories even though there are legitimate use cases for them on an x86_64 kernel (e.g., building multilib packages), * the insane proposal to require AVX2 for x86_64, which has thankfully not been implemented so far, but against which we will likely have to fight again and again during the next few years, * the reenforcement of the mass-retirement procedures and the resulting aggressive mass-retirement of hundreds of FTBFS or orphaned packages, with no regards to why (or even if, in the latter case) they fail to build, whether they still work, how essential they are, nor what or how many other packages (including essential ones) depend on them, * the unprecedentedly aggressive removal of Python 2 and anything remotely related to it, where useful packages can arbitrarily be vetoed by committee (see e.g. https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2223 ). All these are moves which are leaving, will leave, or would leave thousands of users in the cold when and if they have been, are, will be, or would be implemented. I miss the times when Fedora was still an inclusive project, focused on adding things rather than on removing them. Each time you drop an architecture (e.g. i686), a subset of an architecture (e.g. pre-AVX2 x86_64), or one or more packages, you are excluding dozens, hundreds, thousands, or even millions of users. Removing things is actively harmful to Fedora. Kevin Kofler _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
