Why aren't R packages noarch?

Tue Mar 6 22:58:21 UTC 2007

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 22:43 +0000, José Matos wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 March 2007 10:20:24 pm Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > however some R packages are truely noarch. They should be below
> > %_datadir.
Platform dependent files MUST be in %{_libdir}. There is no reason, why
noarch packages should not use %{_libdir}.
Making R use two locations for its packages (thereby causing more
problems than it is worth) only based on whether a package includes
binaries or not only causes confusion.
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