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

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On Tuesday, 08 March 2022 at 23:08, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 03:54:25PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> > On 3/7/22 2:03 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > > A simpler solution would be to just default-off i686 and check-in some
> > > marker file that indicates the package needs to be built for multilib.
> > > This is how openSUSE does it today with the baselibs.conf file:
> > > https://code.opensuse.org/package/fdk-aac-free/blob/master/f/baselibs.conf
> > 
> > If Fedora wants to adopt "default i686 off" I am OK with that. I will gladly
> > add an "IncludeArch" or whatever macro to wine, mingw-wine-gecko, wine-mono,
> > wine-dxvk, and vkd3d to keep building Wine on Fedora. Yes, it is more than
> > just the 'wine' package that is affected by this.
> > 
> > P.S. (this is directed at the mailing list):
> > I have built wine for years. I've submitted wine patches. I engage with
> > upstream. Please engage *me* when it comes to changes affecting wine. I'll
> > be happy to answer questions and work with any changes required.
> 
> Perhaps you could share with the list how used/important wine.i686 is
> these days? Are most folks still using it? Slowly switching to
> wine.x86_64?

My kid is using wine.i686 to play a certain MMORPG Windows game. I'd
hate having to install Windows (even if dual-boot) on their PC just
because Fedora dropped 32-bit x86. I'm not sure if I even have a Windows
license laying around so that'd mean additional cost for me, too.

Regards,
Dominik
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