[arch-dev-public] Architecture Independent Packages

[Travis Willard]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:49:13 -0500
"Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/25/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/25/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 9/25/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Wait, now that I'm thinking, it might exist in the PKGINFO but
> > > > pacman never explicitly checks it...
> > >
> > > Yeah, I don't know if we ever do a "pkg arch == running arch"
> > > check. The only time it'd matter is with the filename.
> >
> > Worth reviving? It was on the back-burner but it is something that
> > has bugged me. If we do this, we could easily do some stuff for
> > arch-generic packages around the same time.
> >
> > http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman.git;a=commitdiff;h=a384a2feb2e55e97e979ef30cff6905561905739
> 
> Ok, yeah let's revive this, BUT, lets get at least a majority opinion
> on arch independent repos, before we attack this.
> 
> Can I get a simple +1/-1 for this, before Dan and I take it too far?
> 

+1 for architecture independence