On Dec 15, 2007 1:00 AM, Karolina Lindqvist <karolina.lindqvist@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > lördag 15 december 2007 skrev Aaron Griffin: > > > Why would we put sed hooks in to fix it when you > > can...just...run...sed yourself? Arch _does_ have the whole "helper > > scripts are dumb" type philosophy... > > Why would we provide one command (makepkg) to replace one command (sed)? > > Well, because I do a "makeworld". I can of course patch, which is simple with > archlinux. The problem is just upgrades, when I need to apply the same > patches manually again, or the patches disappear. > > Then of course, I could do a script that goes through the whole abs tree, and > inserts "i586" if it is not there. But that makes me wonder what purpose the > arch= tag have at all? The arch= tag indicates that we, as the Arch Linux developers, have successfully built a certain package on the given architecture. Since we do not build for i586, we cannot make this claim and so do not add this architecture to the arch= line. -Dan
