Re: F37 Change: Encourage Dropping Unused / Leaf Packages on i686 (Self-Contained Change proposal)

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On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 8:25 PM Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So, I'll go ahead and be a bad guy here:
>
> Perhaps it's time to just retire i686 completely?
>
> Steam is available as a flatpak, and old software thats 32bit only and
> can't be rebuilt could just be run from a f36 container?
>
> This would save us:
>
> * all the builder resources
> * all the multilib calculation time/space in composes
>
> If we don't want to retire it now, when will we?

I have considered this option, but I don't think we can do that yet.

For example, as far as I know, you need the 32-bit host libraries for
running 32-bit Windows applications in Wine.
Dropping that would make our Wine packages almost useless, since a
large fraction of Windows software still isn't 64-bit.

But I could be wrong. And if we indeed don't need wine.i686 to run
32-bit Windows apps, retiring i686 entirely would be an option, I
agree.
(I myself am using the Steam flatpak you mentioned. It works well, and
I don't need 32-bit libs on my host system at all, which is nice.)

Fabio
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