В Сб, 21/03/2020 в 00:53 -0700, Matt Turner пишет: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 9:55 PM Kent Fredric <ken...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > If X is "noarch" and its dependency Y is "amd64", then a user on > > "sparc" > > will be able to install "X", but not its dependency "Y". > > Thank you. This is a good explanation of the problem. > > How do other distributions handle this? Arch, Fedora, and Debian have > "noarch" packages. Surely they've found a reasonable way to make this > work.
Binary distros usually have separate repositories for each architecture.