Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

[Jon Ciesla]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jon Ciesla (limb at jcomserv.net) said: 
>   
>> PLEASE do not do this.
>>
>> If we stop supporting Pentium II and Pentium III, I have to buy a whole  
>> lot of new hardware.   Dead serious.
>>
>> Could we do i686 as a secondary arch, and swap with i386 further in the  
>> future?
>>     
>
> While I understand you may have a lot of older hardware, the point of a
> *seconday* architecture is that it's not the primary architecture target.
> Even if we didn't split off older CPUs, we're still primarily targeting
> newer machines.
>
> Bill
>
>   
Understood.  Currently, it's not just that I have a lot of older 
hardware (though I do), it's that I have little newer hardware.  Do we 
have a policy on having to have access to a machine of a primary 
architecture?

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