> > > Since it's not practical to modify almost all Fedora packages to add
> > > "ExcludeArch: %{ix86}" to them, we'd probably need a different
> > > machanism for this. I have a vague idea:
> >
> > Is it really not? This seems the easiest way to go about it, honestly -
> > just have it be permitted for maintainers to opt their stuff out of
> > building on x86 and let the problem take care of itself recursively.
>
> Yeah, I think I'd go this way too. Instead of trying to maintain this
> centrally in koji, do it at package level, using proven-packager privileges
> to smooth the initial process.
>
> I.e. something like: OK, we don't want to build libreoffice for i686.
> libreoffice is annotated with "ExcludeArch: %{ix86}", and *at the same time*
> any packages which (transitively) BR:libreoffice, are also annotated.
> (They don't even need to be rebuild.)
> And then repeat for another "big" package.
>
> I think this way to go is OK because we mostly care about some of the
> "big" packages that take a long time to build. Most low-level packages
> build just fine on i686 so we don't care if they are built unnecessarily.
>
> And obviously the advantage is that this can be done now, and doesn't
> require any new infra or maintenance. The only trick would be how to
> figure out the transitive BR tree, but apparently there are some scripts
> that people have.
I know it's been discussed, and I don't really care enough to read old
threads TBH, but I suppose the question is what is mlutilib actually
used for. The usual reply is "legacy and proprietary apps". And of
course it's fine to continue to support them but how many actually are
there?
>From a RHEL perspective, RHEL-9 has now forked off, and that will be
supported for 10+ years for "enterprise" even after RHEL-10 in ~ 3
years so enterprise has means of running them in a supported manner
until 2032 if they so wish so does Red Hat still need i686?
What else is there that people care about in Fedora that's only i686?
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