Comment by Levitating
2 years ago
https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@li...
The "building infrastructure" of Arch is just Package Maintainers building and publishing packages they maintain. There was some resistance from PMs against supporting another architecture.
Latest mention is over a year old[0]. This situation invited third parties to release unofficial Arch derivatives built for x86-64-v3[1], splitting the community.
0. https://lists.archlinux.org/hyperkitty/list/arch-dev-public@...
1. https://cachyos.org/