On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:18:52 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > I just hate "noarch" packages which clearly have arch > specific requirements. Of course. We've been there before. But it's not trivial to fix, unless the policy becomes "noarch packages MUST NOT depend on arch-specific packages, not automatically and not explicitly either". Mind you, even script packages require some interpreter (e.g. /bin/sh), and that only works fine as long as the interpreter is available for all archs. If -- at the time of writing a noarch spec -- there is any sort of dependency on an arch-specific package (e.g. for executables), that should be reason enough to make the noarch package arch-specific instead. But later one, dependencies may change, and with that comes the desire to switch between arch-specific and noarch or vice versa. That's never good if it's done to be able to use ExcludeArch/ExclusiveArch. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
