On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 20:07 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > Hello all, > > I've got a simple question that I'd like to table for discussion. > Current -devel tree seems to suggest that FC6 multilib FC6 has almost > doubled in size (from ~13% of the total package count in FC4/5 to ~24% > in the current devel tree) > On the other hand, FC6 is about to include native 64bit OO and gcj (with > browser support) builds, lowering the need for the default i386 support, > as only Wine/Extra actually -requires- multilib support to run. > More-ever, I'd venture to guess that most x86_64 installation will most > likely be used to run native 64bit services and application - mostly on > servers and workstation - lowering the need for multilib even further. > (You won't run 32bit flash on your brand new 32 cores server... let > alone that fact that flash/win32codecs are not supported by Fedora.) > > My question is simple: why not add an installation option to disable > multilib support completely. > > Mind you, I use my workstation to run 32bit software and games... but I > rather disable multilib completely and create a small, specialized > 'stupid' i386 chroot (no DE, no user-applications; only a basic set of > i386 libraries and UI toolkits) and use it to run i386 applications in > a confined space. (Xen/i386 might be an interesting option - though it > won't be able to run hardware GL applications which I need... ;)) > > - Gilboa Changed topic to better reflect the post itself... Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
