On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 00:09:24 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 09:59:54AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 21:33:52 -0500, David Muse wrote:
>
> > I guess noarch packages shouldn't have any arch-specific dependencies.
> > Is that correct?
>
> Yes.
Umm really?
Of course.
Can you explain exactly what's wrong with this?
I think the answer should be _no_ (ie. it's fine for noarch packages
to have arch-ful Requires). Of course the dependencies must be
available otherwise the noarch package cannot be installed.
How would you define an "arch-specific dependency" in a noarch package?
Or to use you wording, how would you define an "arch-ful Requires" in
a noarch build?
If not doing it via %_isa, there would be only work-arounds, such as
including an arch identifier in the package name of a dependency and building
that dependency only for specific target architectures.