Re: [opinion] CVE-patching is not sufficient for package security patching

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Ultimately, I gave up.  In my opinion, Guix has never achieved usability
> as a desktop system on non-Intel systems.  Therefore, the Guix community
> is unable to attract many developers who want a distro that supports
> non-Intel systems well.  Our community has thus become dominated by
> Intel users, and there's unsufficient political will to adopt policies
> that would enable us to provide a usable system for non-Intel users.

A practical problem that’s been mentioned repeatedly is lack of ci.guix
hardware for non-Intel architectures: please everyone, consider helping
the project find either sponsors or companies that sell fitting
hardware, along with a plan to host it and maintain it over time!

Ludo’.