On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 19:22 +1200, David Phillips wrote:
A repository for "any" doesn't make sense.
It would mean that there's not the potential for duplication between the various architectures' repos.
David, OTOH this would mean that we would go one step away from the KISS principle. If somebody has got a 32-bit install, the 32-bit architecture repositories should be what is needed. If somebody has got a 64-bit install, the 64-bit architecture repositories should be what is needed (and perhaps multilib too). Just an additional "any" repository alone wouldn't kill the KISS principle, but it easily could become an endless chain of pseudo-efficiency. Why not separating headers and libs from the bin packages, as e.g. Debian does? This is just a rhetorical question ;). Regards, Ralf