Re: I think we should stop building i686 packages we're not shipping

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* Matthew Miller:

> This is an off-shoot thought of the 32-bit ARM conversation. Right now, we
> build stuff like libreoffice for i686, but then (mostly) don't ship it.
> This seems like a waste of resources and time.
>
> I know it's somewhat complicated (for example, there's actually a library
> package in libreoffice, libreofficekit, so that gets plucked in to
> multilib), and there's quite a lot to work out, but ... does this seem like
> a good intended direction?
>
> One immediate way to do this is to start adding `ExcludeArch: i686` to
> "leaf" packages (I mean: to allow / encourage people to do that). But I
> don't want to add _more_ cruft to the standard minimal spec file, so this
> seems like the wrong direction. And I still think we want to keep multilib
> for compatibility (hello, old games!). Could we do something clever in koji
> instead?

Is really a good use of our time to maintain these exclusion lists?

We could selectively disable LTO on i686 (on other more challenging
stuff, if there is any).  But thinking about whether something should be
built on i686 seems like a distraction.

Thanks,
Florian
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