Why aren't R packages noarch?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Mar 6 23:09:47 UTC 2007


On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:58:21PM +0100, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> 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.

Works for perl.



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