[csw-maintainers] ARCH=all packages

[Peter Bonivart]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> He refuses to take either path, or offer a third one.

Because it works fine the way it is and it's easier for the users to
not have to make a choice since this is likely to be the first package
they download manually to get going. Mac packages often contain code
for both PowerPC and x86 so they don't have to choose. It's the same
thing.

You approved the two first versions of pkgutil with exactly the same
design. Not to mention your own pkg-get is incorrectly named without
the REV-field which is real easy to read from the standard without any
convoluted interpretations. You also chose to not gzip it so it would
be easier for your users.

This is also for being helpful to the users. But that obviously
doesn't mean anything to you when it's not your own package.

> In other words, ARCH=all should be reserved for things like raw
> arch-neutral data files, docs, java, and shellscripts/perl/python.

Which is exactly what pkgutil contains from a user point of view,
three perl scripts in bin.

-- 
/peter