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Is Arch ARM officially supported by the same team? If not, what might be the reason?

x86_64 is the only official Arch Linux. All other ports are unofficial. They are community projects where many of the members are the same as the main Arch Linux.

I think it's basically for the same reason as why they dropped 32-bit x86 support about 8 years ago. Not enough users. (That resulted in the unofficial Arch Linux 32 to maintain support.)

Arch is working to officially support ARM and non x86_64 archs.

https://rfc.archlinux.page/0032-arch-linux-ports/

That RFC says "New ports are added by proposing them in an RFC. At least two package maintainers have to lead a port to ensure it will be developed longer term." but I'm not finding any RFC for ARM support, so can one say work is really officially happening on ARM?

The first step is setting up the project to allow other ports. That it can be done, what it will require, etc.

Once that’s done, then the ports can be submitted.

Look at the maintainers and contributors on the unofficial arm port. Orce this RFC gets accepted, the arm port can propose and figure out how to merge things together.

Yeah, that sounds right to me, and sounds like you're agreeing with me that it isn't yet an official effort, as the RFC hasn't yet been merged, in contrast to what parent claimed.

I think the reason is they don't want to become debian where deciding anything takes foverever. Another architecture is a liability, so it lives in another "project" that official arch is not committed to.

I write this from arch on arm (orange pi) thingy, btw

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