A repository for "any" doesn't make sense.

It would mean that there's not the potential for duplication between the various architectures' repos. I *am* assuming they'd use symlinks for the 'any' packages on the mirrors? On 24/09/2014, Giovanni Santini wrote:

Also, it can be used for packages which uses python or similar; python has to be 32bit or 64bit, apps written in python has not. In general, packages with an interpreter or a VM needs no architecture specific package, as its dependency is the interpeter/VM, which is arch dependant.

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Il 24/set/2014 06:50 Ralf Mardorf ha scritto:

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On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 09:28 +0800, Fernando Gilberto Pereira da Silva wrote:

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Since 'any' is the architecture of the package, why isn't there a folder called 'any' in the repo? I can see only 'i686' and 'x86_64' in

repo 'core', 'extra' and 'community', and all of the 'any'-architecture packages are put into both 'i686' and 'x86_64' folders.

People might use 32-bit architecture or 64-bit architecture, there isn't

an "any" architecture. The "any" only refers to the content of a package. The content isn't compiled to work on 32-bit or 64-bit architecture, e.g. a dash script, so it can be used on both architectures, ergo a package that can be used for "any" architecture, needs to be put to the 32-bit and to the 64-bit architecture repository.

A repository for "any" doesn't make sense.

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PS: The repository "issue" isn't relevant for AUR and ABS and private build packages ;). If I build an empty dummy package or a package providing a shell script or ... I want the suffix "any". I don't want to build two packages, assumed I should have got installs with different architectures. How it's handled to provide "any", aka "no architecture" packages by the official repositories is something unrelated to AUR, ABS and what we build on our own. Assumed it should be worth a discussion (I don't think so), the better place to discuss this is Arch general.