[Nix-dev] Arch is dropping i686. Should we?

Graham Christensen graham at grahamc.com
Fri Jan 27 12:54:31 CET 2017


Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> writes:

> When creating a new stable, I think the month between branch-off and
> release should be enough to fix any important i686-specific issues, as
> they tend to be relatively rare.

However then, in the worst case, we're left to git-bisect 6 months of
changes until we can find the offending issue.

Hydra can rebuild the whole nixpkgs set very quickly if we want to and I
don't get the impression anyone is concerned about binary cache size.

Graham


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