Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Peter Volkov wrote: >>> Looks like this will not work for all noarch packages. Stardict >>> dictionary itself is noarch, but it RDEPENDS on stardict package which >>> is keyworded only on some archs. So we'll be forced either to keyword >>> stardict on all archs or we need to introduce some new way to work with >>> such situations. >> Keywording stardict on all archs doesn't sound reasonable, so I >> guess we just need to make sure that repoman will allow the noarch >> keyword even though the dependencies aren't keyworded on all >> architectures. > > I think we're going a little far trying to solve a management problem > with technology. If a herd thinks that a particular package can be > safely keyworded (or stabilized) other arches (it just dumps data, is > a simple python module, etc); they should make the call and just do > it. >
But we should still have a way to express this in package metadata in some way so it's clear that this is that kind of a package. What zmedico suggested does this nicely but other ways can be used too. Regards, Petteri
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