On 4/14/26 11:28 AM, Michael Swanson wrote:
On Tuesday, April 14th, 2026 at 10:09 AM, Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
On 4/14/26 10:19 AM, evansjahja13@gmail.com wrote:
I would love to see this happen.
I'm a user of both archlinux and archlinux arm, I have a few packages on AUR and I sometimes post issues on archlinux gitlab and got quick replies.
I am quite disheartened seeing the state of archlinux arm. Their forum registration has been broken for months, attempts have been made to fix the forum with no reply.
I am shocked to see that `extras/chromium` is broken for years in arch linux arm! There are many many PRs (and consolidated PR) to fix this issue, one of the maintainer sees the PR and tagged the other maintainers to no avail. I was eventually led to other user's maintained build, presumably out of frustration.
I'd love to help, I'd post in their forum had it not been broken. I think there's a lot of archlinux arm users who would love for the project to be merged under arch linux, especially with arm servers and desktops becoming more relevant.
We would like to hear more from arch linux leaderships.
Evans
some links:
[forum reg down](https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17386)
[chromium PR](https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/pull/2183)
I feel your pain. I got tired of the issues you describe as well.
I am working on my own packages and I have everything working on Raspberrypi 4 and 5. CLI and lxqt desktop working, I am type this on a desktop system from my efforts.
I wrote some scripts that process the "base" package and the build them.
I may my PKGBUILD's available on codeberg but I am not at that point yet.
I have a few packages about 40 out of 2000 that are not building and I am currently working on those.
I too would welcome archlinux to modify their package to build on aarch64. There isn't many changes required.
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Yeah, unfortunately, I think you're going to get a recommendation to continue to seek help from Archlinux ARM. There are several places in the main Arch Linux documentation where they pretty clearly state that mainline Arch can't be and isn't responsible for the various forks for other architectures. Also, I would interpret this not as a lack of sympathy for your plight, but rather simply that support for other architectures like ARM isn't part of the mainline Arch project and Arch simply doesn't have the personnel or expertise to help you.
[Wiki on supported archs] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Frequently_asked_questions#What_architectur...
[terms of service] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Code_of_conduct#arch-linux-distribution-sup...
Mike
There are several places in the main Arch Linux documentation where they pretty clearly state that mainline Arch I have seen that. ARM is becoming an architecture of the future. Look at all the ARM SBC's on the market. I look at x86_64 as a dying architecture as ipads/phones are taking over. I use a Raspberry pi as my daily desktop and I haven't had the need to turn on my Miniforum x86_64 system. -- Hindi madali ang maging ako