[csw-maintainers] ARCH=all packages

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Tue Nov 11 12:05:34 -0500 2008:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:56:18AM -0500, Ben Walton wrote:
> > > It's not the issue of "binary" so much as it is "arch specific".
> > > ascii "arch specific" data is not allowed in "ARCH=all" either.
> > 
> > Taking this stance would mean that shipping asm code examples for
> > different architectures in a doc/$assembler/examples would violate the
> > ARCH=all requirements too, no?
> 
> oooo... way to dance the line right to the edge :-)
> Giving "examples", I think is equivalent to "documentation", though.

Nobody said we couldn't have fun here! :)  You could look at it as
something potentially consumable by the binaries that ship with the
package, which would allow wget binaries in ascii form to get through
the definition too.

Anyway, if there is a reasonable way to acquire wget without bending
the definitions, that's clearly better.

-Ben
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