[arch-dev-public] Architecture Independent Packages

[Jürgen Hötzel]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 01:14:11PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> This was brought up in a previous thread started by Damir, regarding
> committing a package to more than one repo at a time.
> 
> I think it'd be more beneficial for us to split of architecture
> independent packages, just to eliminate redundancy. Python modules,
> scripts, etc they'd all fit here.
> 
> Does anyone have an opinion on the matter? I think adding a
> arch=(none) or arch=(all) setup would be a good idea, BUT there might
> be a lot of other things that need to be changed.
> 

What about arch-dependent repositories:

core-noarch
core-i686
core-x86_64

extra-noarch
extra-i686
extra-x86_64

This doesn't require architecture handling code in pacman. Just another
package repository move ;-))

Jürgen