On 4/14/26 1:09 PM, Fermín Olaiz wrote:
As previously mentioned, there is the ports RFC [1]. I'd argue that the only thing missing to get the ball really rolling is a bit of organization (and maybe breaking things down so users of all experience levels can help).
I often find myself (like many others) going back to the ALARM repos mainly because they sort-of work; but contributing to those has been a pain and more often than not things break and everyone's on its own (mainly because there's no "central place" where to share things).
Which is why I bit the bullet and I am making my own "distro"
I know there's been lots of efforts around this [2] but even then it feels like we are all waiting on the infra/tooling to magically appear and work for ports and the reality is that "talk is cheap, send patches".
Where does one send patches?
Some "talk" will be necessary as there's a lot of things that should be integrated into arch's tooling, but there's the need to get some momentum going.
I concur
I think that the rest will come by itself; we're at a point where even building everything on an emulated VM would be kind-of feasible because there is the computing power. I'm going on a tangent here, of course there are better solutions, but what I'm trying to say is: what we need is involvement, interest, and people willing to organize and put in the work to move the project forward :)
I'll open an issue there [2] mentioning this thread to see what the people actually working on the project think, and to ask how we can help!
Fermín Olaiz.
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[1] https://rfc.archlinux.page/0032-arch-linux-ports/
[2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ports/aarch64/project-management/
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