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From: Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>, "Andreas Enge" <andreas@enge.fr>,
	jgart <jgart@dismail.de>, Kaelyn <kaelyn.alexi@protonmail.com>,
	"Ricardo Wurmus" <rekado@elephly.net>,
	"Julien Lepiller" <julien@lepiller.eu>,
	"Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>,
	"Lars-Dominik Braun" <lars@6xq.net>,
	guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: i686 core-updates failure.
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:30:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFHYt54oHork5HBdnWmDrd83mgNDH_yWaEKU+6qwFZ6NKv6a9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5zaflio.fsf@gmail.com>

Hi everyone,

> At some point we have to make choices
>
>         Guix has never achieved usability as a desktop system on non-Intel
>         systems.
>
>         I've come to believe that having Guix work well on non-Intel systems is,
>         in practice, incompatible with the rate at which we update our packages.

There are many good reasons to drop a machine type but I'm not sure
that's one. In my book, a poorly working Guix system is still better
than having none at all.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

P.S. Porting to exotic architectures can also expose interesting bugs
that make software more portable in the future.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-14 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-12 16:11 i686 core-updates failure Kaelyn
2023-04-12 21:05 ` Josselin Poiret
2023-04-12 21:31 ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-13  4:37   ` Kaelyn
2023-04-13 16:25     ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-14  8:28       ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-14 20:05         ` Kaelyn
2023-04-15 11:20           ` python-pytest on core-updates (was: i686 core-updates failure.) Andreas Enge
2023-04-15 11:32             ` python-pytest on core-updates Andreas Enge
2023-04-15 14:08               ` [PATCH core-updates] gnu: python-pytest: Fix failing test_raising_repr Josselin Poiret
2023-04-15 16:14                 ` Kaelyn
2023-04-15 19:59                 ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-15 20:47                   ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-15 20:49             ` python-pytest on core-updates (was: i686 core-updates failure.) Andreas Enge
2023-04-13  9:18 ` i686 core-updates failure Simon Tournier
2023-04-13 13:23 ` jgart
2023-04-13 13:43   ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-14 15:12     ` Csepp
2023-04-14 16:58       ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-14 17:30         ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. [this message]
2023-04-13 15:31   ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-13 16:21     ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-13 15:47   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-04-13 16:15     ` Greg Hogan
2023-04-13 16:39     ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-13 16:47       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-04-13 20:02       ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2023-04-13 20:15         ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-13 20:45           ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-13 20:57             ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-14  8:25               ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-14  9:45                 ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-14 18:16                 ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-14 18:40                   ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2023-04-15  9:48                     ` ghc in core-updates on i686 Andreas Enge
2023-04-14 10:49           ` i686 core-updates failure Lars-Dominik Braun
2023-04-14 17:00             ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-13 20:33 ` wget (was Re: i686 core-updates failure.) Simon Tournier
2023-04-13 20:37   ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-13 20:43     ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-13 20:49       ` wget Andreas Enge
2023-04-15  0:51   ` wget (was Re: i686 core-updates failure.) Maxim Cournoyer
2023-04-15 10:43     ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-15 16:37       ` Kaelyn
2023-04-15 18:25         ` Kaelyn
2023-04-15 21:00           ` wget on i686 in core-updates Andreas Enge
2023-04-16 17:06           ` wget (was Re: i686 core-updates failure.) Andreas Enge
2023-04-16 17:49             ` Kaelyn

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