On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 09:44:17AM +0100, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > Your weather summary is a great idea, thanks! As I said in my previous > email, the armhf substitutes are not built right now on the CI. It's > really sad but we have to make an impossible choice between:
Specifically about armhf, if anybody wants to use it with Guix, I hope they will speak up. I would have expected to hear from users that they were not getting any substitutes. I think we should monitor the volume of substitute requests per platform and see how big the demand for armhf Guix really is. Although there is a huge amount of armhf hardware deployed, Guix seems a very poor fit for it. There is almost no armhf hardware that is suitable for a build-from-source distro in terms of performance, thermal design and suitable storage (SD cards will not last for unless you pay a huge amount for the absolute highest quality). Binary distros like Trisquel are a much better option for armhf. All that is not a reason to not support armhf, but if nobody is using it, then we should officially deprecate it, and not leave it in this in-between state.