[pacman-dev] architecture warn/check

[Roman Kyrylych]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:18, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Dan McGee wrote:
>> 1. Making something impossible is never good (this is mostly the
>> "unforeseen difficulties" excuse)
>> 2. "probably" leaves a lot of wiggle room
>> 3. If your name is Allan McRae (or anyone else) and you run an x86_64
>> kernel in an i686 userspace
>> 4. If your name is <whoever> and you run random i686 package on a
>> mostly-x86_64 machine
>>
>> Probably more, and some of these are weak, but there is enough of a
>> reason to allow it that I think it would be silly to lay down the law
>> for people that may need to circumvent the check.
>>
>
> And we all know #3 is the most important! :)
>
> That said, I like this idea as long as it can be disabled.  I have seen
> people accidentally stuff there systems by doing this on many occasions.
>  Although, it does fall into the category of stopping stupid people and we
> do have a -Rd option...

Well, I've managed to install i686 pacman-git (replacing old pacman)
on my x86_64 system by making a mistake in repo name. :-P

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)