On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 3:10 AM Tom Hughes via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On 06/04/2020 22:53, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > Changes in this version of the proposal[2]: > > > > * Improve our explanation of why we are doing ELN in the first place > > I agree that the proposal is now a lot clearer and I certainly see > how it furthers the first goral of seeing how Fedora trunk comes > together asn an EL build, modulo one concern below. > > I don't understand how it helps evaluate something like a new > higher CPU baseline - nobody disputes that packages can be built > to a new baseline which is what this would prove. The argument > is about the effect on consumers of such a baseline and about > what proportion of users/machines would be cut off from further > upgrades and this proposal does nothing to help with that.
As to what proportion of users/machines would be cut off, we don't care about the exact number. It was already established that the number is an unacceptable amount. The real question is, how much of a performance advantage do modern machines get from running things built for such a baseline. If there is a significant advantage, then it becomes worthwhile to explore methods to make relevant packages built to such a baseline available in standard Fedora. There have been various ideas on how to make them available without making them a required minimum, but all of them involve a non-trivial amount of work. It would be a waste of time and energy if the real world advantage turns out to be minimal. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org
