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On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:36:05 +0530 |
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Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Sounds like we could benefit from the "noarch" approach known in the RPM |
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> > world, such that all these packages can also be immediately keyworded |
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> > and stabilised for all arches. Would greatly simplify things for a |
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> > great deal of packages, maybe? |
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> This is a good idea; themes, wallpapers, fonts, game-data (stuff that |
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> mostly installs into /usr/share) could easily fall in this category. A |
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> lot of python modules are arch-independant as well (upstream has been |
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> thinking of splitting the install structure to put such things in |
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> /usr/share/python2.6/<etc>). |
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> Examples of packages: |
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> gnome-extra/gnome-games-extra-data |
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> x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme |
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> kde-base/kdebase-wallpapers |
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> games-fps/quake3-data |
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> app-text/poppler-data |
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> media-fonts/dejavu |
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dejavu isn't a good example as it's (optionally) built with fontforge. but |
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other fonts that are basically unpack and install are. |
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fonts, Character is what you are in the dark. |
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gcc-porting, |
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wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 |