Agreed, especially when there is little to no call for such a thing.
For example, Python 2 and Python 3 can and do coexist. i686 builds can coexist
with x86_64 builds.
On September 18, 2019 9:56:49 AM UTC, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at>
wrote:
>John M. Harris, Jr. wrote:
>> These are generic servers. I can provide a link to the vendor's
>website
>> when I get home. It is not Dell, Lenovo or similar, those are
>currently
>> selling mostly x86_64. Additionally, many users don't want to buy a
>new
>> computer just because a software project made the decision to
>randomly
>> drop support for their architecture. I am certainly one of those. The
>> hardware is fine, perfect working condition. I don't understand why
>we
>> should simply turn these to e-waste because somebody flipped the
>> proverbial switch.
>
>Unfortunately, Fedora has lately become mainly about randomly dropping
>support for things:
>* dropping, in short succession, of the i686 kernel, the i686 images,
>and
>then even the i686 repositories even though there are legitimate use
>cases
> for them on an x86_64 kernel (e.g., building multilib packages),
>* the insane proposal to require AVX2 for x86_64, which has thankfully
>not
>been implemented so far, but against which we will likely have to fight
> again and again during the next few years,
>* the reenforcement of the mass-retirement procedures and the resulting
>aggressive mass-retirement of hundreds of FTBFS or orphaned packages,
>with
> no regards to why (or even if, in the latter case) they fail to build,
> whether they still work, how essential they are, nor what or how many
> other packages (including essential ones) depend on them,
>* the unprecedentedly aggressive removal of Python 2 and anything
>remotely
> related to it, where useful packages can arbitrarily be vetoed by
> committee (see e.g. https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2223 ).
>
>All these are moves which are leaving, will leave, or would leave
>thousands
>of users in the cold when and if they have been, are, will be, or would
>be
>implemented.
>
>I miss the times when Fedora was still an inclusive project, focused on
>
>adding things rather than on removing them.
>
>Each time you drop an architecture (e.g. i686), a subset of an
>architecture
>(e.g. pre-AVX2 x86_64), or one or more packages, you are excluding
>dozens,
>hundreds, thousands, or even millions of users. Removing things is
>actively
>harmful to Fedora.
>
> Kevin Kofler
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