On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:02 PM, <gro...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for such >> packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a package is >> ~noarch, it is automatically considered ~arch for all arches. Similar for >> stable. The maintainer should be able to keyword ~noarch and to stabilize >> noarch. Comments? >> > There's been opposition to this in the past, but I'm in favor of > giving this a shot. >
I too think it is at least worth a try. We can learn from this either way. Maybe start out leaving it up to maintainer discretion, and if that becomes an issue we can try to formulate guidelines. Rich
