On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 04:57:52PM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 9/1/22 4:25 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > Let me rephrase, is the mingw package going to be built on ALL arches > > with the expectation that they are the same (like -data packages)? If > > so, that seems like a huge waste of resources. > > The MinGW packages would build on all arches. I believe the original > designation of 'noarch' is due to the cross-compile aspect as you can build > these on any arch and that end users would only use them for development and > not runtime. That has changed recently now that Wine builds most of itself > as Windows PE binaries and depends on .dll files from mingw32/64 packages.
The distinction 'development' vs 'runtime' is rather ill-defined, since development includes running tests which is "runtime" usage. Even before Wine was using the DLLs itself, apps could run their own tests inside Wine, or inside a real Windows virtual machine, at their choice. It is still reasonable to have the mingw packages noarch, as for example, people could be using a aarch64 host, doing windows cross-builds for compile only testing and so need the mingw packages installed. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
