On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM Adam Williamson
<adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> It doesn't, though. It still means we have to maintain all the weird
> infrastructure for putting i686 packages in x86_64 repos, and any other
> work we want to do on infrastructure or testing has to account for that
> weirdness. That, to me, is the primary cost of maintaining i686
> support. It's not about build failures.

I have sometimes wondered if putting i686
packages in x86_64 repos was a bad idea,
and instead leaving a i686 repo (with a
smaller and smaller package set) as a
standalone repo that individuals could add
if they needed multilib.  I don't recall the
entire reasoning the various decisions, and
at this point, probably water under the
bridge, unless it is time to build a dam
and divert the packages to a different
repo (call it multilib, if you don't want to
imply i686 is supported?).

In any case, allowing packagers to
be aggressive in adding ExcludeArch
could be a first step even if it does not
help infrastructure or QA immediately
(fixing everything everywhere all at once
is probably not achievable).
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