Fedora Linux 37 intends to stop building optional packages for the i686 architecture

For implementation in Fedora Linux 37, a policy is slated to recommend that maintainers stop building packages for the i686 architecture if the need for such packages is questionable or would result in a significant investment of time or resources. The recommendation does not apply to packages used as dependencies in other packages or used in the "multilib" context to enable 32-bit programs to run in 64-bit environments.

The change has not yet been reviewed by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical part of the development of the Fedora distribution. Let us recall that the formation of the main repositories and kernel packages for the i686 architecture in Fedora was stopped back in 2019, leaving only multilib repositories for x86_64 environments, which are actively used in Wine and Steam to run 32-bit builds of Windows games.

Source: opennet.ru

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