On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 2:34 PM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 3 2023 at 12:03:12 PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé
> <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Yes, this whole episode makes me want to kill off i686 builds of
> > everything
> > I maintain, even when its not a leaf package. I only spent time
> > investigating
> > the root cause in gnutls because I saw valgrind warnings and wanted
> > to be
> > sure there wasn't a security flaw lurking that would impact x86_64
> > too. I
> > have absolutely no interest in spending resources to retrofit 64-bit
> > time_t
> > to a build target that ceased to be relevant to the overwhealming
> > majority
> > of Fedora users many years ago.
>
> If the i686 builds only exist for Steam and Wine, can we say users
> should switch to containerized distributions instead (e.g. flatpak,
> snap, or whatever)? Does it really makes sense to build all the various
> dependencies of these applications in an age where containers exist?

While I agree to some extent (the "unofficial" Steam flatpak from
flathub works quite well), I don't think dropping wine is a good idea.
As far as I know, it's used to run tests in some MinGW packages.

Fabio
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