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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 4E0C31B022 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx12.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -5.21 X-Spam-Score: -5.21 X-TUID: t6SucT0B7mou >> In terms of side-stepping the question, do we have enough x86_64 >> hardware to continue to support i686 without degrading support for >> x86_64? (I ask this seriously, although I'm pretty certain the answer i= s >> we're well covered on that front=2E) > >Support does not just mean dedicating build cycles to doomed builds, but >also dedicating people's time to wade through hundreds of failures for >little gain=2E Perhaps our time is better spent supporting architectures >that still have a future=2E > For consideration, I know at least one 3rd-party channel relies on being a= ble to create a multiarch container containing i686 packages=2E I'll refrai= n from linking since it packages nonfree software=2E This is an example whe= re keeping an old architecture around is more complicated than simply count= ing the number of active machines using said architecture=2E Perhaps we could tally the number of substitutes served for supported arch= itectures and use that as our metric for liveliness=2E