Gábor Csárdi

> Can't we build arm64 on the macOS runners? AFAICT they cannot run Docker.

That's obviously extra work, newer versions of gcc are easily available on Fedora, but not on Ubuntu, and the custom BLAS/LAPACK issues typically do not reproduce on Ubuntu (or on...

Yes, orbstack probably uses qemu instead of Rosetta. You can probably turn off Rosetta for colima as well, if you prefer that: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/pull/555

GH is planning to roll out free arm64 Linux runners for open source repos, if I understand correctly, then we'll be able to build arm64 images much easier.

That is not so simple, for a couple of reasons. First, we don't have system dependency support for Arch Linux. Ideally we also create binary packages at https://github.com/r-hub/repos, otherwise it...

IDK, maybe. But again, arm64 containers will not reproduce some of the CRAN issues, so I am not sure if they'd be useful.

FWIW qemu is not a joyride, either: ``` > pak::pak("mockery") ! Failed to update system requirement mappings, will use cached mappings. → Will install 1 package. → The package (20.75...

Maybe we could fix this, but in general you should always pass string literals to cli functions.

I don't mean a character object, I mean a literal. I.e. not ```r x

It is maintained for our internal use, so it is fine to keep it on the checklist.