[Slackbuilds-users] should I remove my submissions from the pending queue + noarch if pure perl?

Robby Workman rworkman at slackbuilds.org
Fri Oct 25 15:53:29 UTC 2013


On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:23:27 -0500
"Patrick J. Volkerding" <volkerdi at slackware.com> wrote:

> On 10/24/2013 05:05 PM, Didier Spaier wrote:
> > Also, IIRC, only perl-Unicode-LineBreak needs cc to be built, the
> > two other are "pure perl".
> >
> > Should I set ARCH to "noarch" for the these?
> 
> The usual policy for packages in Slackware (not sure if there is 
> anything similar for SBO, but if not this might be worth thinking
> about) is that if the package would have any lib64 directories on
> x86_64, then it should not get "noarch" simply because it would not
> be generic across all architectures.


That is generally how we have handled it as well.

-RW
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