Timely article in the Register today:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/05/linux_letting_go_32bit_builds_on_the_way_out/

I've been thinking about this as i686 is so often broken that I've now
stopped bothering to test it in the libguestfs tests that I do on
Rawhide:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/libguestfs.git/commit/?id=aa63cef2d7679e1906551ef4e46c2e9a8861b56c

If you need to run an i686 virtual machine based on Rawhide, my
experience is that it's more likely than not that it won't boot, and
no one cares.

Do we have stats for the relative proportion of i686 vs x86-64 downloads?

Rich.

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