[arch-general] [Fwd: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support]

[Abdul Halim]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:29:58 +0200 (CEST)
> "Thomas Bohn" <thomas at bohnomat.de> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, April 1, 2009 11:00, M Rawash wrote:
> >
> > > a more obvious choice would be to stick with archlinux+ABS, remember
> > > we're just dropping BINARY package support, arch's build tools will
> > > remain the same, think of it as a less sucky gentoo.
> >
> > To compile mplayer on my Atom N270 takes forever, I can't imagine to
> > compile X or Firefox on that machine.
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> distcc/crosscompiling etc. you can compile on your 64bit box for 32bit.

Is there a chroot to 32bit from 64bit host in Arch? I guess it is time to do so.
How am I gonna run my skype and wine application? :-)

> sounds like a cool project, maintaining some tools and scripts to do
> that on arch.  Xyne has probably already written it.
>
> Dieter