On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Anatol Pomozov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Jameson <[email protected]> wrote: >> I know that officially Arch only supports i686 and x86_64, but what >> about AUR? I occasionally have people request that I add ARM >> architectures to my PKGBUILDs in the AUR. Is it more appropriate for >> me to tell them that it is an unsupported architecture, or just add it >> so they don't have to modify it prior to building? > > AUR arch should contain either i686 or x86_64 as these are only > architectures supported by Arch. > > All non-Intel users (like those who install Arch on arm) should use > 'makepkg --ignorearch' flag.
Thanks to everyone for chiming in. I found myself in a position where I didn't want to make things difficult for the user, but I also didn't want to be part of people unknowingly setting a bad precedent of adding ARM architectures to their PKGBUILDs.
