On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 03:48:34PM +0100, Stefan Esser wrote: > Am 02.11.20 um 15:33 schrieb Mateusz Piotrowski: > > Hi ports@, > > > > I wonder if setting NO_ARCH=yes brings any significant benefits to how > > our ports collection works. I'd be grateful if you could shed some light > > on the importance of setting NO_ARCH whenever possible. > > NO_ARCH means that there is no need to build packages for each of the > supported architectures, e.g. for pure interpreted scripts or data files > that do not depend on byte-order and word-size (e.g. many font file > formats). > > The result is reduced resources spent on building the packages, network > traffic, disk space on mirrors and on distribution media. > > Regards, STefan
Yes that is the goal, in practice it is not yet the case, so it is purely informational, but that what we are aiming at yes. Best regards, bapt
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