On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:22:17AM -0700, Jason Chu <jason@archlinux.org> wrote:
I've been arguing for the architecture in the filename for a long time... some arch devs are really against the idea and I have no idea why... Usually the best argument they have is that it breaks backwards compatibility and packages in repos should be stored in their architecture's directories. Both of which, I don't buy.
we have them in separate dirs, too. and you can't be backwards compatible forever.. :) the usual practice at us is to to be backwards compatible between stable releases. so after 0.5 was out, the 0.4 -> -current upgrade is no longer supported
I once had an idea to not depend on the filename at all. Instead to get the package's info from the .PKGINFO. Then the filename becomes irrelevant...
when you build the list of files to download it still matters imho udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org