Why aren't R packages noarch?

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:33:22AM +0100, Gérard Milmeister wrote:

> You have also R packages that happen to have no binaries.
> Why shouldn't they go along-side the other packages. This seems to be
> consistency to me. 

Indeed that is a kind of consistency, just another kind.

> Otherwise you should split each package into two
> parts: one that contains ONLY binaries and installs into %{_libdir} and
> one that contains ONLY platform independent files and installs into
> %{_datadir}. That would be consistent too.

I would personally like it even better.

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Pat