However: Do we actually need multilib for anything (other than maybe
wine)? For example, I am running Steam on my workstation, and some
Linux-native games, but I still have *zero* .i686 arch packages
installed on my system. The Steam flatpak does not need them at all,
since the freedesktop runtime comes with an i686 multilib extension
that automatically gets pulled in when the Steam flatpak is installed,
obviating the need for any i686 libraries on the host.
I was not actually aware there was a flatpak, I used the steam package from RPM Fusion and obviously it does link with Fedora libraries:
$ rpm -q --requires steam | grep x86-32
(alsa-plugins-pulseaudio(x86-32) if pulseaudio)
(pipewire-alsa(x86-32) if pipewire)
alsa-lib(x86-32)
gtk2(x86-32)
libXScrnSaver(x86-32)
libXext(x86-32)
libXinerama(x86-32)
libXtst(x86-32)
libatomic(x86-32)
libcurl(x86-32)
libdbusmenu-gtk3(x86-32) >= 16.04.0
libnsl(x86-32)
libpng12(x86-32)
libva(x86-32)
libvdpau(x86-32)
libxcrypt-compat(x86-32)
mesa-dri-drivers(x86-32)
mesa-libGL(x86-32)
mesa-vulkan-drivers(x86-32)
nss(x86-32)
pulseaudio-libs(x86-32)
systemd-libs(x86-32)
vulkan-loader(x86-32)
Thanks,
RichardÂ