On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 8:25 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > > So, I'll go ahead and be a bad guy here: > > Perhaps it's time to just retire i686 completely? > > Steam is available as a flatpak, and old software thats 32bit only and > can't be rebuilt could just be run from a f36 container? > > This would save us: > > * all the builder resources > * all the multilib calculation time/space in composes > > If we don't want to retire it now, when will we?
I have considered this option, but I don't think we can do that yet. For example, as far as I know, you need the 32-bit host libraries for running 32-bit Windows applications in Wine. Dropping that would make our Wine packages almost useless, since a large fraction of Windows software still isn't 64-bit. But I could be wrong. And if we indeed don't need wine.i686 to run 32-bit Windows apps, retiring i686 entirely would be an option, I agree. (I myself am using the Steam flatpak you mentioned. It works well, and I don't need 32-bit libs on my host system at all, which is nice.) Fabio _______________________________________________ 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
