Retire a package from Fedora i686 (not x86_64)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 11/07/2015 04:55 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 06.11.2015 um 20:11 schrieb Germano Massullo:
>> For example, SSE3 instructions set is one of the minimum requirements
>> and 99% of 32 bit only CPUs do not support it. Only Pentium 4 >=
>> Prescott architecture supports it
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> seriously?

Probably.

> with that argumentation Fedora would drop i686 at all
No. darktable handles the situation on sse3-less CPUs gracefully at 
run-time.

The actually problem is darktable wanting to be compiled with -msse3, 
which means being compiled with a Fedora incompatible instruction set, 
on both i386 and x86_64.

> well, i don't have any non x86_64 machien but the argumentation is bous
You are right, these days in professional PC-usage, i686ers likely are 
rare and hard to find.

But in personal (private) PC-usage, the situation is different. There, 
5/6-year old 32bit PCs are still wide spread and will be supported by 
Windows for many years. Also consider, people are using Linux on such 
machines to extend these machines life time.

Feel free to drop the i386, if you want drop the end-user/desktop market 
and to leave this market to Ubuntu, Debian and other distributions.

Ralf