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Re: Architecture: all versus linux-any



Jerome BENOIT <g6299304p@rezozer.net> writes:
> On 27/12/13 20:45, Steve Langasek wrote:

>> The package already depends on the architecture-dependent iptables, and
>> is therefore uninstallable on kfreebsd.  So there doesn't seem to be
>> any harm to having the package be Architecture: all.

> Will setting Architecture to linux-all create more harm ?

It means that the archive has to store N copies of the package, where N is
the number of Linux architectures, instead of just one.  For a small
package, this probably doesn't matter that much, but it's inefficient.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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