Why aren't R packages noarch?

[Orion Poplawski]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:57:03AM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> Other that installing in /usr/lib/R on i386 and /usr/lib64/R on x86_64, 
>> there appears to be no difference between an R package on the two 
>> architectures.  It seems to me that they should be made noarch and put 
>> into /usr/share/R instead.
>>
>> Comments?  Note that I am completely new to R....
> 
> Some R packages are truely arch; But noarch packages should indeed be in
> /usr/share  (like perl and python noarch packages), but maybe this
> means changing R too much?
> 
> I am also very new to R.
> 
> --
> Pat
> 

We'll see.  Filed 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231220 to ask.

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