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Bazzite founder might shutdown whole project if Fedora drops support for 32 bit packages (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 days ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324/93

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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm wondering what the problem even is. I mean, can't you just put all the stuff relevant to 32 bit gaming into a 'retro-gaming' package and be like "there, now if you want updates, better find maintainers"?

If you have an old game, chances are you won't need many new features. Only problem could be other packages or the kernel becoming incompatible. I don't know how relevant that is in this instance.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 days ago

only problem could be other packages or the kernel becoming incompatible

Yea dependency management without updates is like 80% of the work that goes into package maintenance