Re: Splitting foo2zjs
On 01/08/2014 12:59 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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.
>
Do we need multi-arch for packages which are not a library?
Till
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