[pacman-dev] architecture warn/check

[Allan McRae]

Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> 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
>   

So, you seem a good candidate to do the actual bug report opening so 
this idea does not get lost!  :D

Allan