On 2016-07-05 21:31, Marcos Alano wrote: > 2016-07-05 12:57 GMT-03:00 Bryan Quigley > <[email protected]>: >> The general ideas are: >> A. Drop ubuntu-desktop i386 ISO for 16.10 and drop some packages >> from the i386 archive - likely Unity7/8*. > > I think the option A should be put out of discussion or, at least, > analyzed very carefully. That's because some applications for i386 > don't have equivalent for amd64. And other applications depend of > some i386 packages present in the repositories. Big examples are > Skype and Steam. Steam depends of a series of i386 packages for GUI.
You can use those applications without installing a 32 bit system. Dropping the ISO isn't equivalent to dropping all the 32 bit packages. -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
