Can someone explain me *real quick* what is the multilib good for? - or
more precisely, why whould anone run 32-bit software on x86_64 OS?
From what I googled, it look like everyone does it yet nobody explains why
:D
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Michal Schorm
Associate Software Engineer
Core Services - Databases Team
Red Hat
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 06/04/2018 06:55 PM, Jeff Backus wrote:
Thanks for the insight. Yes, I can see the advantages. However, have
> things really gotten so bad that it justifies ejecting part of the
> community?
>
The cost of i686 support is not insignificant. Most of that happens
upstream (like features only getting accepted when there's an i386/i686
implementation). There's little we can do about that, but:
In fedora, we are also a point of contact for weird bugs which someone
needs to triage. I really don't want to do that, but due to the lack of
secondary architectures, I'm often forced to because i686 breakage brings
development on architectures which I actually care about to a halt.
I can justify this work if it helps downstream (so that we can be
confident that customers will be able to run their legacy software going
forward). But with the current divergence in build flags, it is fairly
questionable whether my work can deliver such a benefit, and that is
frustrating.
Thanks,
Florian
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