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Re: Splitting foo2zjs



Quoting Till Kamppeter (2014-01-08 12:42:04)
> OdyX, you have split foo2zjs into printer-driver-foo2zjs and 
> printer-driver-foo2zjs-common telling that you want all 
> arch-independent files being shared across architectures. This saves 
> some disk space in the build server infrastructure (there should be 
> plenty of disk space) and on the user side it is probably without any 
> benefit as nowadays no one shares a system disk partition between 
> several computers (which can be of different architectures). So for me 
> it looks like that it makes building and updating more complicated 
> without real benefit. Or what are the real advantages?

Just guessing here, but I believe that if aiming for multiarch 
compatibility, arch-independent parts need to be shipped as a separate 
package (or code patched to look in unusual locations for its data 
files.


 - Jonas

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