On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:18, Allan McRae<allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Dan McGee wrote:
1. Making something impossible is never good (this is mostly the "unforeseen difficulties" excuse) 2. "probably" leaves a lot of wiggle room 3. If your name is Allan McRae (or anyone else) and you run an x86_64 kernel in an i686 userspace 4. If your name is <whoever> and you run random i686 package on a mostly-x86_64 machine
Probably more, and some of these are weak, but there is enough of a reason to allow it that I think it would be silly to lay down the law for people that may need to circumvent the check.
And we all know #3 is the most important! :)
That said, I like this idea as long as it can be disabled. I have seen people accidentally stuff there systems by doing this on many occasions. Although, it does fall into the category of stopping stupid people and we do have a -Rd option...
Well, I've managed to install i686 pacman-git (replacing old pacman) on my x86_64 system by making a mistake in repo name. :-P -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)