Johan Grahn 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
> 
>> Andrew
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I'm not bothered either way, but currently makepkg (from pacman3) 
produces packages with the new naming scheme, and it's a PITA trying to 
parse a package filename when you have to account for both old and new 
naming schemes.

Andrew

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