On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/05/2016 10:57 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>
>> If you need to run an i686 virtual machine based on Rawhide, my
>> experience is that it's more likely than not that it won't boot, and
>> no one cares.
>
>
> Well, that's independent for the state as primary vs secondary architecture.
>
> If we remove i686 as a primary architecture, we will not have i686 packages
> in the x86_64 repository.  Is this what we want?

We're in the process of redefining what constitutes a secondary arch
and this is part of that consideration. There's a bunch of proprietary
common third party tools/apps that people rely on that still need i686
around.

> (For me, armhfp is more more of a pain point due to slow build times.)

That will be changing soon, we have the replacement hardware and now
F-24 is out it's one of my primary focuses to get it into production.

Peter
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