On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 06:21:20PM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 18:14 Stephen Smoogen <ssmoo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 at 12:10, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 11:43:38AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Has anyone gone through the effort of removing i686 from a wide reaching
> >> > non-leaf package? Any advice appreciated
> >>
> >> Can we just stop building for i686 in Fedora in general, instead of
> >> burning
> >> maintainer time figuring out deps problems like this... ? What's the
> >> blocker and how much longer do we have to put up with its burden in
> >> Fedora ?
> >>
> >>
> > The blocker is someone making a Change Request and then going to the
> > Fedora 43 CR meetings with FESCO :). I think the only blocker has been
> > Steam games.
> >
> 
> Steam is mostly a solved problem with the Steam Flatpak on Flathub. ("But
> boohoo, I want to use the RPM" - I don't care. Valve should make a 64-bit
> compatible client already, it's 2025.)
> 
> The only remaining blocker from official Fedora repos, is - to my knowledge
> - wine, which pulls in 32-bit multilib libraries on x86_64.
> 
> With work progressing in Wine upstream to make it possible to run 32-bit
> Wine programs with only 64-bit Linux userspace, that will go away soon
> (hopefully).

Do you happen to know of any upstream tracker bug that can be
followed for watching that work progress ?

> I had planned to file a change proposal for dropping i686 architecture
> support entirely as soon as that is possible.

Great.

With regards,
Daniel
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