Better than forcing it

Posted Oct 31, 2025 21:06 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (guest, #33263)
In reply to: Better than forcing it by Kamiccolo
Parent article: Ubuntu introduces architecture variants

>But it comes with cost... 2x-3x more storage required for the repos and mirrors?

Of course not.
If you're smart, you first leave out all noarch packages (fonts, game data, etc.). And then only rerun the build for select packages that profit (or are believed to profit from it). In openSUSE, the x86-64-v3 set is just an extra 37 MB on the download server.