Re: F43 Change Proposal: Drop i686 support (system wide)

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On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 12:26:27PM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Red Hat's enterprise ambitions may not take it near Valve headquarters, but
> I do not see why gaming has to be the primary selling point. RHEL 10 removed
> i686 but I would not be surprised to see it return once customers attempt to
> upgrade.

If a RHEL user still needs i686 multilib support, the solution is to
continue to use RHEL-9 either on the host, or as a VM, or as a container.
RHEL-9 lifetime has a long way to run yet, and by the end of RHEL-9, i686
multi-lib will be even more niche than it already is.

Also in terms of precedent, RHEL has been willing to drop support for
old HW/SW platforms. Most recently the big example is the requirement
for x86_64-v2 ABI in RHEL-9, further bumped to x86_64-v3 ABI in RHEL-10,
which likely affected more RHEL users than dropping i686 will.

With regards,
Daniel
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