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> Shit software that can't be written portably enough to run on more than amd64 must be kicked off the repo.

Convince me, why should I spend my time supporting i686? Just to accommodate a handful of people still running 32bit hardware?

Calling other people's work "shit" just because they don't spend their free time supporting the wishes (not needs!) of 0.1% of their users is rude and extremely entitled.



FWIW, I agree with you. But I think there is an argument to be made: the OpenBSD team has indicated that cross-architecture ports help them find bugs that otherwise might not be noticed if they were just targeting the usual suspects.


Why should you spend your time writing it in the first place?




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