Can someone explain me *real quick* what is the multilib good for? - or more precisely, why whould anone run 32-bit software on x86_64 OS?
>From what I googled, it look like everyone does it yet nobody explains why :D -- Michal Schorm Associate Software Engineer Core Services - Databases Team Red Hat On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 06/04/2018 06:55 PM, Jeff Backus wrote: > > Thanks for the insight. Yes, I can see the advantages. However, have >> things really gotten so bad that it justifies ejecting part of the >> community? >> > > The cost of i686 support is not insignificant. Most of that happens > upstream (like features only getting accepted when there's an i386/i686 > implementation). There's little we can do about that, but: > > In fedora, we are also a point of contact for weird bugs which someone > needs to triage. I really don't want to do that, but due to the lack of > secondary architectures, I'm often forced to because i686 breakage brings > development on architectures which I actually care about to a halt. > > I can justify this work if it helps downstream (so that we can be > confident that customers will be able to run their legacy software going > forward). But with the current divergence in build flags, it is fairly > questionable whether my work can deliver such a benefit, and that is > frustrating. > > Thanks, > Florian > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.or > g/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SJ57YL > A5XHOYJAAZR3RZBSOPOR4KEO53/ >
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