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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:21:58
Message-Id: 20200320072144.346e5306@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword by Gerion Entrup
1 On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:52:08 +0100
2 Gerion Entrup <gerion.entrup@×××××.de> wrote:
3
4 > Maybe I misunderstand something but shouldn't that be the normal case?
5 > Every single Python package (candidates for noarch) for example depends
6 > on the Python interpreter, which must have non noarch keywords.
7
8
9 Yeah. So Basically, this pans out to being practically useless unless
10 you have no dependencies at all, or all your dependencies are
11 themselves noarch.
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13 And that excludes all of python, and all of perl, because python and
14 perl cannot ever be noarch.