Athlon Incompatible Packages

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:30:17AM -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> 
> But shouldn't the athlon arch be compatible with 386?
> In which case shouldn't the packages also allow athlon?
> Excuse my total ignorance on this... If in fact, the packages in 
> question will not work correctly on athlon, and fedora is unwilling to
> support athlon, then I can see how this is not a bug.
> 
In fact the athlon arch is not compatible with i386, however i386 IS
compatible with athlon.  IE a build which is optimized for athlon can
actually contain features that i386 cannot support, but the reverse should
not be true.

Justin