On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 05:11:17PM +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > Am 2020-03-18 15:54, schrieb William Hubbs: > > All, > > > > this came up again on the recent thread about dropping non x86/amd64 > > support for python packages, and I want to bring it up again on its own > > thread. > > > > How often do architecture specific bugs really exist in languages like > > perl, python etc? From what I've seen they are pretty rare. Not to > > mention, > > if we found one somewhere, we could adjust keywords as necessary. > > I'm not judging this proposal, just a data point: packages that e.g. > read from /proc, especially /proc/cpuinfo, get easily blow up on > architecture changes. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/663424 for an example. Sure, but if you run into something like that you just don't use the noarch keyword for those packages.
Thanks, William
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