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

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 01/26/2017 10:57 PM, Vladimír Čunát wrote:

> I think the main resource cost for us is the build farm and binary
> cache.  Idea: what about building full i686-linux set only on stable
> branches?

Yeah, that sounds reasonable.

Another possibility is to reduce the number of packages that get built for i686,
but it would be tricky to decide which packages to keep.

Graham wrote:

> 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.

I think it's more an issue of build time, especially if we want Hydra to build
PRs (which could trigger a full rebuild in the worst case).

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