Ian Murdock: I doubt there'll be a substantial number of architecture-neutral packages; we can either copy or link them into all of the trees.
I suppose this depends on what you mean by substantial... Here's a list of packages that appear to be architecture-neutral, by cursory examination on my system. [Potential flaws -- packages which are partially deleted by collision with other packages, packages which rename their files after unpacking, Tex .tfm files sometimes look like executables. However, I've spot cleaned this by hand, so it shouldn't be too far off base.] ii adduser 1.94 3 Utilities to add users and groups to the system ii amsfonts 2.2 3 Additional Fonts from the AMS for typesetting m ii amslatex 1.2 3 Math extensions for LaTeX from the AMS ii amstex 2.1 1 An addon package for plain TeX from the AMS ii arrl-infoser 1.0.0 0 Ham-Radio Information from the ARRL Info Server ii autoconf 2.4 1 The GNU Autoconf configuration system. ii babel 3.5 1 Support for multilingual typesetting with LaTeX ii dpkgname 0.4 0 Rename Debian packages to full package names. ii dvips 5.58f 2 TeX DVI-driver for Postscript ii elisp-manual 19-2.4 1 Emacs Lisp Reference Manual iU elv-fmt 1.8pl4 19 Adjust line-length for paragraphs of text ii emacs-el 19.29 4 GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files. ii fort77 1.6 1 An f2c front end to make it look like a compile ii glibcdoc 0.06 1 GNU C library Info documentation. ii gsfonts 2.6.1 2 Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter ii hyperlatex 1.3 5 Creating HTML using LaTeX documents. ii iamerican 3.1.18 3 An American English dictionary for ispell. ii jargon 3.1.0 1 The definitive compendium of hacker slang. ii latex 2e 4 Write structured documents with TeX ii ltxgraph 0.7b 1 Color and graphics in LaTeX ii ltxmisc 1.0 1 Additional small styles for LaTeX ii ltxpckg 1.0 Standard LaTeX packages ii ltxtool 1.0 3 Add on macro packages for LaTeX ii makeidx 2.12 Makeindex, a general purpose index processor ii manpages 1.8 1 Manual pages for section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9. ii metafont 2.71 2 Metafont - TeX's font engine ii mfaddfnt 1.0 Metafont sources for additional fonts ii mfbasfnt 1.0 3 TeX's default fonts. ii mflib 1.0 5 Auxiliary files to run Metafont ii mfnfss 2.1g 1 Use additional Metafont fonts with LaTeX ii mh-papers 6.8.3 1 The MH papers: A set of document on/about MH. ii mirror 2.8 0 Mirror script for keeping ftp archives up-to-da ii motifnls 1.0 1 The XFree86 Motif-1.2 NLS resource defaults. ii ntgclass 9412 1 NTG document classes (dutch TeX users-group). ii oldgerman 1.0 1 Nice gothic and fraktur fonts for TeX ii pandora 1.0 1 The Pandora fonts ii psnfss 5.2 1 Support for Postscript fonts with LaTeX ii syslinux 1.20 0 Boot disk creator. ii texidoc 3.6 5 Texinfo manual - how to write a Texinfo file ii texlib 1.0 4 Auxiliary Files to run TeX ii texpsfnt 1.0 1 Virtual fonts and TFM's to use Postscript fonts ii textfm 1.0 3 TeX standard font metric files ii vm 5.95beta 1 A mail user agent for Emacs ii w3-el 2.2.25 4 This is a hypertext (Specifically World Wide We ii wenglish 1.0 3 The english dictionary words for /usr/dict. ii workbone 2.3 3 Simple text-based CD Player ii xdvi 1.8f 2 A TeX DVI-previewer for X11 ii xfnt100 3.1.2 1 XFree86 3.1.2 100dpi screen fonts. ii xfnt75 3.1.2 1 XFree86 3.1.2 75dpi screen fonts. ii xfntbig 3.1.2 1 XFree86 3.1.2 large Kanji and other fonts. ii xfntcyr 3.1.2 1 XFree86 3.1.2 Cyrillic fonts. ii xfntscl 3.1.2 2 XFree86 3.1.2 scaled fonts (Speedo and Type1). ii xmanpages 3.1.2 2 XFree86 3.1.2 manual pages. ii xypic 3.2 2 Typesetting graphs and diagrams with TeX. -- Raul
