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

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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
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