Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:12 PM Ole Streicher wrote:
> This would be a quite flexible and extendible approach to have packages
> installable only where they work.
There is precedent for this sort of thing in the isa-support source
package, which fails installation when your CPU doesn't support
particular ISA extensions like SSE or NEON.
It is a reasonable workaround for now, but the packages using the
pseudo-packages would still be available, causing confusion when
people try to install them. It would be better to just not have them
available where they aren't going to work. I also wonder how
multi-arch stuff would interact with the pseudo-packages idea.
--
bye,
pabs
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