[arch-general] should imagemagick-doc really be i686/x86_64

Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 08:21:39 EST 2011


On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at lutzhaase.com> wrote:
> "Ionuț Bîru" <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>>On 01/27/2011 12:41 PM, Auguste Pop wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am not aware of the package until I saw it listed on the home page
>>> of Archlinux today. Just out of curiosity, I skimmed the contents of
>>> the package and find out that they are mainly html files. Shouldn't
>>it
>>> be "any" rather than i686/x86_64? Should I file a bug report or this
>>> is just my ignorance of imagemagick?
>>>
>>> Thank you for your kind attention.
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>
>>is not a bug. is more a impossibility to split 'any' packages like
>>that.
>>makepkg supports such splits but our server scripts doesn't handle them
>>
>>at all.
>>
>>
>>--
>>Ionuț
>
> Indeed, but can still create a separate 'any' package like we do with some games. Just a split package won't work there.
>

FTR, there used to be a seperate 'any' imagemagick-doc packge but I
just removed it because it was too much work and it was often
forgotten when other devs were rebuilding or updating imagemagick.
Plus, it's only 3MB.


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