On Sunday, January 12, 2025, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel <
devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On 10/01/2025 20:28, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce wrote:
>
>> Individual packages can provide already optimized libraries via the
>> glibc-hwcaps mechanism. This approach will be extended to executables.
>> The package provides an optimized variant of a binary in a different
>> directory.
>>
>
> So all Fedora packages will take 2x (x86_64-v1, x86_64-v2) disk space? Am
> I right?
>
>
No, the proposal is not to do that for all packages, it's opt in for the
ones that benefit.


> A symlink to small program which replaces the binary in
>> `/usr/bin`.
>>
>
> What will happen if the system was installed on x86_64-v2 and then
> copy-pasted to another machine with x86_64-v1? The symbolic link will point
> to x86_64-v2 binary, which will cause a segmentation fault, resulting in
> the system not being able to boot.


 How realistic is that case? If anything it goes in the other direction i.e
people upgrade their hardware.


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