On Thursday 07 of May 2015 07:29:32 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I understand the advantage of focusing on one architecture. But is 32-bit really dead? I say: not quite yet...
Well it definitely is not dead. :-( I'm afraid 10 years from now, I might still be reading e-mails explaining we can't get rid of i586 (together with those explaining we can't get rid of ifconfig).
As a minimum, it might be a good idea to decide to eliminate it at some reasonable point in the future, and make an official announcement of that. This will let people plan the transition. The official announcement and a time schedule will let people convince the powers that be that resources are needed within that time frame to resolve any local issues.
I should make one thing straight: I did _not_ suggest next openSUSE release shouldn't provide i586 architecture. All I did want to say was that the fact that SLE12 is not provided for (and supported on) i586 shouldn't be seen as relevant for the discussion if we want to base next (or any future) openSUSE release on SLE packages. And that's for the reasons I already mentioned: it does not stop us from providing i586 openSUSE and if we do, i586 openSUSE wouldn't get significantly less testing, attention and support than recent releases had. Michal Kubecek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org