On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 08:32:13PM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote: > 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. How many examples of things like Wine & Steam do we actually have ? I feel it must be a pretty small list of things which are important to a large number of users and yet need 32-bit. If we only consider Wine & Steam, we can make a clear list of exactly what small set of 32-bit libs are needed, we can declare everything obsolete. We could start by simply excluding all those unneeded RPM from the compose, and then let maintainers disable it in their RPM builds without fear of causing deps problem. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
