[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

[Olivier Blin]

Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> writes:

> actually, imo, noarch could be a real savior. i see that quite some packages 
> are i586 on mandriva, but in reality could be made noarch.

Especially since the BS can now cope with noarch sub-packages from
arched packages.

It allows to split out most of the noarch stuff (basically everything in
/usr/share could be considered) to sub-packages, and save space on the
mirrors.

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Olivier Blin - blino