On 6/13/07, Johan Grahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 22:43 +0100, Andrew Fyfe wrote: > > Are there any plans (if so when) to switch the official repositories > > over to the new package naming format? > > > > Current/Old: name-ver-rel.pkg.tar.gz > > New: name-ver-rel-arch.pkg.tar.gz > > Why do you wanna do this? I'm just curios... > > Is it not better to just have separate repos because they are compiled > differently and better to maintain. > > I'm not saying that is it a bad idea, I just wanna know how you think
No body "wants" to do it - it's already done, and part of pacman 3.0. The rationalization is simple: the majority of the time you don't touch real package files... it's pacman -S, done. There is really nothing lost from adding the suffix - what is gained is clarity in looking at the filename. To respond to Andrew: there actually is no real "plan" at the moment... but we want to make sure pacman2 users have sufficient time to make the switch before we kill their packages. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
