Better than forcing it

Posted Oct 31, 2025 16:28 UTC (Fri) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Better than forcing it by Kamiccolo
Parent article: Ubuntu introduces architecture variants

It’s not just a storage thing, it means that every single time you build a package, you have to wait for all variants to finish building to declare the build successful. So your build costs and build velocity take a direct hit.

Or course you can declare a variant optional and not wait for it but that’s a short path to second class abandonware people should be weary about.