On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 12:10:03PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 07/05/2016 10:57 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > >> 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. > > > > > > Well, that's independent for the state as primary vs secondary architecture. > > > > If we remove i686 as a primary architecture, we will not have i686 packages > > in the x86_64 repository. Is this what we want? > > We're in the process of redefining what constitutes a secondary arch > and this is part of that consideration. There's a bunch of proprietary > common third party tools/apps that people rely on that still need i686 > around.
wine on x86_64 pulls in the i686 packages too, so it is not just closed source stuff requiring i686. I don't see it being viable to drop support for i686 on x86_64 any time soon. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
