i486 base architecture

[William M. Quarles]

Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, William M. Quarles wrote:
> 
>>Earlier this year on this list several of us were discussing the
>>possibility of adjustments being made to the architecture optimizations
>>of the Fedora Core packages.  One of the suggestions thrown around that
>>had zero opposition was changing the base architecture from i386 to
>>i486.  Why has this not been done?  This is especially poignant since
>>Fedora Core 1 finally broke i386 compatibility with its kernel.
> 
> Lots of pain for little gain (especially if we're just moving to i486 as
> the base arch).

What kind of pain are we talking about here?

Peace,
William