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On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:36 PM, 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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One exception: we cannot be sure such things will install/work on |
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x86-fbsd and prefix archs since the differences are more than just |
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"architecture". |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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