Dale Blount wrote:
What is gained by having this suffix?
Say I have more than one architecture running Arch (I do). Say I have an nfs mounted home directory (I do). Say I have packages lying around in my homedir (I do). It'd be nice to know at a glance which box(es) the package could be installed on without stretching my already over-stuffed memory.
Same holds true for packagers who build packages for more than one architecture.
yeah... its actually good for ppls that have to download and keep packages lying around, and then manually add them with pacman -A, instead of pacman -S. I think Arch as a community actually encourages pacman -S *unconciously* over pacman -A, so this hasn't been much of a problem in our faces, but its a good thing to have, because once in a while, you want to know.
Dale
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