Why aren't R packages noarch?

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:20:24PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> >   As Patrice said R packages are in the same boat as perl or python packages.
> > $ rpm -ql R-wavethresh | grep so
> > /usr/lib/R/library/wavethresh/libs/wavethresh.so
> >   In my book this does not seem like a noarch file. ;-)
> however some R packages are truely noarch. They should be below
> %_datadir. Is it possible?

I haven't investigated, but it's possible R doesn't have the notion of
looking in multiple places. In that case, if there's any arch-specific, all
must be. Or else we end up with symlink craziness or something.

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