On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 15:04:21 -0500,
Robbie Harwood <rharwood(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Fabio Valentini <decathorpe(a)gmail.com> writes:
> For example, as far as I know, you need the 32-bit host libraries for
> running 32-bit Windows applications in Wine. Dropping that would make
> our Wine packages almost useless, since a large fraction of Windows
> software still isn't 64-bit.
Would it be possible to have package foo's x86_64 build produce a
foo.i686.rpm, or even just a foo-32.x86_64.rpm for this? Wine is an
important use case, but keeping the whole arch machinery around for it
seems like overkill - just having the packages that are relevant for it
build 32-bit variants as a special case seems a lot cleaner.
If cross building is used, that might cut down the buildrequires issue. You
might eventually be able to just have this for packages required by wine
and steam for i686.