[pacman-dev] Arch neutrral packages

[Jason Chu]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:44:20PM +0100, Andrew Fyfe wrote:
> Is it worth adding something like arch=(NOARCH) for packages that are 
> arch neutral (ie they only contain text files, scripts...) so we don't 
> have 2 identical packages for i686 and x86_64.
> 
> Andrew

There's been talk of this.  I think it's a good idea.  Apparently codemac
thinks it's a bad idea.

When I talked to phrakture about it a while back, his issue IIRC was that
it's an arbitrary name and one day there might be a NOARCH architecture
that we have to support... or something like that.

Jason
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