[pacman-dev] Arch neutrral packages

[Andrew Fyfe]

Jason Chu wrote:
> 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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NOARCH was just the first thing that poped into my head, what about ALL.

The reason I bring it up is if you're maintaining an arch neutral 
package you need to fudge CARCH everytime you want to build for the 
other archs.

Andrew