-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:48:54 +0100 Tomáš Chvátal <scarab...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Dne 27.1.2011 17:30, Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:19:51 -0600 > > Jeremy Olexa <darks...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Probably OT, sorry. Isn't it time we gained this concept of > >> "noarch" for packages that only install text files or packages > >> that don't compile anything... > > > > No, since there's no such thing as an app that's guaranteed to be > > portable. > > Yeah like ebuild consisting of one posix-sh script or ebuild that > installs only png files... > > It might have its use.
...where the POSIX sh script assumes that integers are large enough for 64 bit values, or where the POSIX sh script calls a shell utility that has a bug on certain archs that hasn't otherwise been a problem, or where the POSIX sh script assumes things about the filesystem lib directory layout that aren't true on some archs, or where the POSIX sh script fishes around in /proc for something that's not there on some archs, or where the package's build system depends upon a particular version of 'make' that has been masked on some archs due to bugs, or where the developer who thinks that a package is 'obviously' portable is ignorant of portability issues. - -- Ciaran McCreesh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1Bo3cACgkQ96zL6DUtXhHGfwCfUX8AbFiR80iVZkGpo9Ip6NfX CdYAoJvk1Zb940y24iNpcGbknpnU71xn =6fHx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
