On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:12 PM Ole Streicher wrote: > This would be a quite flexible and extendible approach to have packages > installable only where they work.
There is precedent for this sort of thing in the isa-support source package, which fails installation when your CPU doesn't support particular ISA extensions like SSE or NEON. It is a reasonable workaround for now, but the packages using the pseudo-packages would still be available, causing confusion when people try to install them. It would be better to just not have them available where they aren't going to work. I also wonder how multi-arch stuff would interact with the pseudo-packages idea. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
