Comment by frankjr

1 year ago

> Valve is now providing a build service infrastructure

Fingers crossed this means Arch will support the ARM architecture* in the official repositories. There's a related RFC which has been accepted but but I'm not sure where things stand right now.

https://rfc.archlinux.page/0032-arch-linux-ports/

* I'm well aware of Arch Linux ARM but that's a separate project with even less resources (missing packages, some broken). Asahi used to use it before moving to Fedora due to similar problems.

> Fingers crossed this means Arch will support the ARM architecture* in the official repositories. There's a related RFC which has been accepted but but I'm not sure where things stand right now.

That is the goal with the work they are sponsoring, yes.