On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 07:03:51PM +0000, Mattia Verga via devel wrote:
> Il 21/07/26 19:37, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto:
> > I'm not sure what we're trying to achieve by
> > unilaterally disabling the i686 subpackages, unless the plan is to
> > actually remove the architecture entirely.
> 
> The question is: those 3,400 packages that are claimed to be leaf 
> packages and not useful to build for i686, how much disk space in 
> repositories (and network bandwith transfer for synch) and how much 

Well, we don't sync i686 repos anymore. Only those things that are in
the x86_64 repo/multilib are shipped. So, many of these dont likely
matter for that? Or it's a subset at least...

> build time consume for nothing? I suspect that both are not 

Of course they are still built, so that does indeed matter.

> negligible... yet there seem to be some reluctance to this change, while 
> on the other end a proposal to enable x86_64v3 is struggling because "we 
> don't have enough resources"...

In that case the duplication is not worth the resources, IMHO.

kevin
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