[Mageia-dev] noarch vs. arch

Olivier Blin mageia at blino.org
Sat Sep 3 16:41:06 CEST 2011


Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> writes:

> On 2 September 2011 14:06, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
>> It would help would be by having smaller hdlists, but I am not sure it
>> would really help mirror so much. ( ie, I would not say "lots of space"
>> even if that still a saving )
>
> Actualy hdlist are pretty much unused these days.

It would still be of some benefit for synthesis as well, by having
smaller ones, and by making dependency resolution a bit simpler for
people having both 32 bits + 64 bits media available (by removing the
doble noarch packages)

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Olivier Blin - blino


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