Dropping i686 media for F24

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Thu Aug 20 11:31:42 UTC 2015


On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Christian Schaller <cschalle at redhat.com> wrote:
> Well there seems to be more laptops/desktops still in use on i686,
> and it is not a lot of engineering overhead. Is there a request from
> release engineering to be allowed to drop i686 media? (I would assume the
> gains are relatively small since we would need to keep i686 packages around for
> some time regardless of having install media.)

No request from rel-eng here, it's no real extra work for us.

Peter

> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 2:29:46 PM
>> Subject: Dropping i686 media for F24
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>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2015-August/001661.html
>>
>> Stephen Gallagher has proposed a Change for Server to drop i686 media
>> for F24.  Given our previous list discussion, this is something for
>> which we should probably follow suit.  Thoughts?
>>
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