On 09/04/2017 05:20 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 10:32:33AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I'd hope the plan is to do this much the same way as centos.
> Drop i686 kernels and programs, but continue to provide
> i686 libraries for legacy 32 bit programs which have no
> source code so they can continue to run. There are a lot of them
> out there people use (adobe reader comes to mind).
a) I do not agree with this view.
b) To my knowledge, Adobe reader already is broken by other packaging
bugs in Fedora 26/x86_64.
Unless an active maintainer community forms around the i686 kernel
and
boot process, yes, the above is the plan; we won't drop i686 userspace
on x86_64 kernel for... a long time.
... or Red Hat to revert this plan
Actually, I'd recommend Fedora/RH to drop all other "secondary" archs,
because they do not have a community user base.