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On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:02 PM, <grozin@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for such |
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>> packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a package is |
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>> ~noarch, it is automatically considered ~arch for all arches. Similar for |
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>> stable. The maintainer should be able to keyword ~noarch and to stabilize |
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>> noarch. Comments? |
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> There's been opposition to this in the past, but I'm in favor of |
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> giving this a shot. |
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I too think it is at least worth a try. We can learn from this either |
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way. Maybe start out leaving it up to maintainer discretion, and if |
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that becomes an issue we can try to formulate guidelines. |
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Rich |
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