Am 22.06.2010 15:03, schrieb Dan McGee:
Wouldn't it be more intuitive to have 'Architecture = auto' as the default and use 'Architecture = none' to disable the feature?
The manpage explains our reasoning why pretty clearly.
Architecture = auto | i686 | x86_64 | ... If set, pacman will only allow installation of packages of the given architecture (e.g. i686, x86_64, etc). The special value auto will use the system architecture, provided by in “uname -m”. If unset, no architecture checks are made. NOTE: packages with the special architecture any can always be installed, as they are meant to be architecture independent.
This doesn't explain anything, this just re-states what I wrote above. I am trying to understand why the option isn't: Architecture = none | auto | i686 | x86_64 | ... where 'auto' is the default instead of 'none'.