On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Nezmer <git@nezmer.info> wrote:
It's not a hard-to-imagine corner case. Remember that we are talking i[3-6]86 and x86_64 here. The latter is capable of running the former binaries (As far as the IS is concerned).
Some OSes still use i386 low level tools (e.g for booting) in x86_64/AMD64 systems. That's just one example.
Some projects use self-contained wine. That's another example.
I can provide more examples if you wish.
As great as the example sounds, the vast majority of packages do not fall under that category. Not Arch's, nor Frugal's, etc. And for the few that do, they'll have debug symbols vs. the time gained from not checking for them in the rest of the -any packages' makepkg run. Until a repo reflects this necessity, it's esoteric because the situation is far in between... Andres P