To be implemented in Fedora Linux 37, a directive is scheduled to be adopted, recommending maintainers to cease building packages for the i686 architecture if the necessity for such packages is questionable or leads to significant time or resource expenditures. The recommendation does not apply to packages used as dependencies in other packages or those employed in a 'multilib' context to enable running 32-bit programs in 64-bit environments.
The change has not yet been considered by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical aspects of Fedora distribution development. It is worth mentioning that the formation of core repositories and kernel packages for the i686 architecture in Fedora was halted back in 2019, with only multilib repositories for x86_64 environments remaining, which are actively used in Wine and Steam for running 32-bit Windows game builds.
Source: opennet.ru
