On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 20:04:44 +0100 Balló György via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public@archlinux.org> wrote:
Because I still use an i686-only system occasionally, and I prefer to keep old hardware working with my favourite distribution. I agree that building packages manually for a small percentage of users is pointless. But most of the packages can be built for i686 without any modifications. We just need an automated build server, which takes the job.
-- György Balló Trusted User
I guess I don't see this as a good reason to support it. I use an i686 system occasionally, too, but saying that a distro should support it for those edge cases just makes no sense to me. What we've actually got is a situation where we claim i686 support, but it's actually very poorly supported. Better to let it die and let Arch focus on what it does well.