[pacman-dev] $ARCH suffix on packages

[Aaron Griffin]

On 10/11/06, Cameron Daniel <me at camdaniel.com> wrote:
> Have the $ARCH suffix in the filename isn't going to add any
> unnecessary bloat, it's not going to take away from anything and while
> the positive side isn't anything that will blow you away, it has more
> minimal advantages than minimal disadvantages.

It's also worth point out that if Arch subconciously wants users to -S
instead of -A, there' no difference at all.  I mean "pacman -S foo"
doesn't care what version, release, or architecture foo is, it just
installs it.