Why aren't aspell-XX packages noarch?

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Wed Sep 1 11:54:59 UTC 2004


Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering why the numerous aspell-XX packages were built for each
> arch instead of being noarch. It seems to me that they don't contain any
> kind of arch specific files, and the total amount of disk space they
> currently occupy for each arch in the Fedora Core Development tree is about
> 75MB. Should I bugzilla this or are there strong arguments against it
> (other than "most tools don't update packages when they change arch",
> *sigh*)?

Simple solution, rename everything to aspellcode-XX. =)

/me runs.

> 
> Which raises another point : I really hope Seth implements a kind of
> "ExactArchPkgs=kernel kernel-smp glibc" configuration quickly to yum "TNG"
> :-)

Note that apt doens't have this problem...

Warren





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