On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 9:54 AM David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > Our most recent FESCo meeting involved discussing the proposal to drop i686 > builds of jdk8,11,17 from Fedora 37 onward. The topic quickly changed to the > larger question of "what do people use i686 packages for?" > > Rather than guess, we wanted to ask the community what you use i686 packages > for in Fedora. There are no wrong answers here. We are seeking information. > > Why? Since the removal of the i686 kernel in Fedora, we want to reduce the > number of i686 packages provided in the repo. As time marches on, the ability > to build a lot of things for i686 becomes unrealistic or even impossible. > Remember it goes beyond providing builds...providing support, bug fixes, and > security fixes for those packages too. Maybe some things using i686 packages > now can move to x86_64 packages. We do not know yet, but a goal is to figure > out what packages, if anything, can drop their i686 builds. > > NOTE: Nothing is changing now. We are in an information gathering phase. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > If you use i686 packages for something now, please respond to this thread. > I use i686 packages for a few cases: * Older (proprietary) Linux userspace drivers (e.g. printers, etc.) and applications * Substituting the Steam runtime components for Steam games for performance and reliability * Playing my Linux native games * Windows applications (most of my *currently developed* Windows apps are still 32-bit) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
