F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:58:08PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:50:24PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> > > Or does it mean x86 as PA is out of line?  There are a lot more people
>> > > with ARM devices than x86.  Sorry everybody, we're going to have to demote
>> > > x86. ;-)
>> > False marketing.  Majority of ARM devices out there don't run Fedora and
>> > never will.
>>
>> Sooner or later, though, we probably _should_ deemphasize 32-bit x86.
>
> The website already links to 64-bit in preference to 32-bit. There's
> arguably reasons to prefer 32-bit in certain memory-constrained
> environments, but there's certainly arguments in favour of (say)
> dropping most of the 32-bit x86 package set and turning it into a
> specialised subset of the overall distribution.

So sat make it a secondary arch? Not sure how you can be promoting
"specialised subset of the overall distribution" for x86-32 and saying
that ARM must support 100% of what mainline currently does! I
personally would be against demoting the x86 32 bit experience for the
general user but in terms of specialist packages there's already a
delta between x86-32 and 64 in mainline Fedora.

Peter