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| From: | Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o> | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword | ||
| Date: | Sat, 21 Mar 2020 07:53:50 | ||
| Message-Id: | CAEdQ38H_+OrmKfsoDRYpMSY3Eyb9tYh+g8U_XW2Mj7EkWPyzNg@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword by Kent Fredric |
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| 1 | On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 9:55 PM Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote: |
| 2 | > If X is "noarch" and its dependency Y is "amd64", then a user on "sparc" |
| 3 | > will be able to install "X", but not its dependency "Y". |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Thank you. This is a good explanation of the problem. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | How do other distributions handle this? Arch, Fedora, and Debian have |
| 8 | "noarch" packages. Surely they've found a reasonable way to make this |
| 9 | work. |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword | Alexander Tsoy <alexander@××××.me> |