[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] linux-api-headers-2.6.32.5-1

[Alexander Duscheleit]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:37:17 -0600
Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> wrote:
> > On 25/01/10 17:41, Jan de Groot wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 12:13 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> >>>
> >>> linux-api-headers-2.6.32.5-1
> >>>   - convert to arch=any  (built on x86_64, tested on i686)
> [...]
> > Good point.  I had thought about this and decided that they we
> > architecture independent on the architectures we support so went
> > with arch=any.  Should I revert that?
> 
> A comment in the PKGBUILD would probably be nice even if you don't
> revert it alluding to the above. That way anyone trying to do some abs
> cross-compile could at least have something to go off of. However,
> with that logic, making it not arch-independent would help them even
> more...
> 
> -Dan

+1 for not arch-independent

Community projects for different architectures are coming up all the
time. Also, ARM is gaining a stronghold on netbooks, a perfect target
for Arch. ARM might very well become a new official architecture in a
few years, if it really takes of (the way I hope :)).

Why introduce (subtle) stumbling blocks to save less than 1M on mirrors?

	Jinks