On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 19:19 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
BTW I see noarch packages are located in each of the separate arch
trees as opposed to being in a noarch dir which looks like the
advantage of the noarch in space saving isn't happening. What other
advantages does it offer?
When the same package is in multiple trees, we use hardlinks to reduce
the on-disk space usage. Noarch packages can still have Exclusive or
ExcludeArch flags so a unified noarch repo is not very possible.
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