On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Lukas Ocilka wrote:

> Lukas Ocilka napsal(a):
> > Andreas Jaeger napsal(a):
> >> Lukas Ocilka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>> But finally I've found that some currently NOARCH packages use several
> >>> "#if defined(__$arch__)" in that extra-packages file. So moving the
> >>> content to "Suggests: $package" would mean transforming some NOARCH
> >>> packages to architecture-dependent just because of suggested packages :(
> >> Are those requirements still current and correct?  Could you give us the
> >> list, please?
> > 
> > File attached.
> > 
> > For simplicity only those "Suggested:$packagename" that are marked
> > architecture-dependent are listed there. For instance yast2-installation
> > has some more but they appear to be NOARCH, so they don't change anything.
> > 
> > 
> > NOARCH YaST packages affected:
> >   * yast2-installation
> >   * yast2-samba-client
> >   * yast2-kerberos-client
> 
> Hmm, while checking the list ... I've realized that, for instance, those
> packages listed for yast2-installation should go somewhere else.
> 
>   * Bootloader (milo, aboot, cpml_ev5, cpml_ev6)
>   * Base pattern (sudo)
>   * Enhanced base PPC patterm (ibmsis, scsi, mouseemu, pbbuttonsd,
>     powerprefs, mol, powerpc-utils)
>   * ... no idea for (fpswa, numactl)

Does this actually matter? What would happen if we have Suggests to
a package which is not available?

I mean to have Suggests:milo in bootloader despite it's noarch could
possibly have no harm on architectures which do not have that package
(in a theoretical situation we actually use Suggests for anything).

Michal
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