On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 12:14 PM Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > > * Matthew Miller: > > > This is an off-shoot thought of the 32-bit ARM conversation. Right now, we > > build stuff like libreoffice for i686, but then (mostly) don't ship it. > > This seems like a waste of resources and time. > > > > I know it's somewhat complicated (for example, there's actually a library > > package in libreoffice, libreofficekit, so that gets plucked in to > > multilib), and there's quite a lot to work out, but ... does this seem like > > a good intended direction? > > > > One immediate way to do this is to start adding `ExcludeArch: i686` to > > "leaf" packages (I mean: to allow / encourage people to do that). But I > > don't want to add _more_ cruft to the standard minimal spec file, so this > > seems like the wrong direction. And I still think we want to keep multilib > > for compatibility (hello, old games!). Could we do something clever in koji > > instead? > > Is really a good use of our time to maintain these exclusion lists? > > We could selectively disable LTO on i686 (on other more challenging > stuff, if there is any). But thinking about whether something should be > built on i686 seems like a distraction. >
While it might take a good bit of time to sit down and figure out exactly what is *useful* from a multilib standpoint, I don't think that is necessary at this time. It really could be simplified to "do I build a library or not?". if the package ships a library, keep building it for i686, if not, you can disable it. It isn't an optimal solution, but it would probably cut down considerably on build time, and resource usage. Justin _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
