On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 10:36:47AM -0500, Ron Olson wrote: > Apologies in advance if this is laughable naïveté, but would a possible solution be to have a different repo for packages compiled against the latest-n-greatest architectures, and packagers could choose to include their packages in there, similar to EPEL? > Packages in this hypothetical repo could be marked to replace existing ones via %obsoletes or some other mechanism; this would give the user the control to decide if he or she wants to switch to a “higher-performant” version and not have to rely on HW checks or telemetry. > > Just a thought. Sure, thats possible, however it would use a lot of resources. ;( * builder cpu cycles and disk * mirror disk space * buildsystem disk space * mirroring BW etc. and... the most important resource: everyone's time. If you have multiple versions of your package you have to ask everyone in bug reports which one they are using, you might not be able to duplicate due to lack of hardware, you have 2x as many things to worry about, etc. So, while thats very possible, I fear we don't have the resources to do it. (Nor do I think the benifits are worth it currently). kevin
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