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From: David Seifert <soap@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:27:57
Message-Id: 57e7aff989f6cd578ac072bcc51afc83b4e4d9a8.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword by Kent Fredric
1 On Thu, 2020-03-19 at 14:57 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:59:25 -0500
3 > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > Sure, but if you run into something like that you just don't use the
6 > > noarch keyword for those packages.
7 >
8 > But as soon as this happens, all dependent packages that are noarch
9 > will need to also transition to not using no-arch.
10 >
11 > So it turns into a lot of busywork without benefit.
12
13 Second this, it doesn't sound well though out at this point.