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From: Alexander Tsoy <alexander@××××.me>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 08:03:26
Message-Id: 0dad1451b4b7a3b303b36539bb0fb4a3180558ee.camel@tsoy.me
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword by Matt Turner
1 В Сб, 21/03/2020 в 00:53 -0700, Matt Turner пишет:
2 > On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 9:55 PM Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
3 > wrote:
4 > > If X is "noarch" and its dependency Y is "amd64", then a user on
5 > > "sparc"
6 > > will be able to install "X", but not its dependency "Y".
7 >
8 > Thank you. This is a good explanation of the problem.
9 >
10 > How do other distributions handle this? Arch, Fedora, and Debian have
11 > "noarch" packages. Surely they've found a reasonable way to make this
12 > work.
13
14 Binary distros usually have separate repositories for each
15 architecture.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>