On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 6:05 PM Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
(snip)
I'll add some context to these. I'm currently the primary
maintainer of three major projects in the VFX stack, OpenImageIO, OpenColorIO, and
OpenEXR. Do we really need i686/arm packages for these? No one is using the 32bit versions
in industry. That being said, some of these are deps for end user packages that MIGHT be
used on i686 or armv7 (Blender?), but if they are, it can't be a good experience.
I wonder how you think those end user packages MIGHT be used on i686
on i686 or armv7?
Given that 1) armv7 has been removed from F37+ entirely, and 2) we do
not ship any i686 packages to users (except for multilib on x86_64)?
Another major package is FreeCAD, which is a 3D solid modeling
project. I seriously doubt anyone is running this on an ARM device (even 64 bit) until
workstation level arm devices are widely available. There could be a few i686 users but
not many.
Again, how? We haven't even had i686 kernels (let alone installable
Fedora images) since Fedora 31.
Fabio