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[Anders F Björklund]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>> As this software is just a perl script and requires no extra steps 
>> for other architectures shouldn't it considered to be already 
>> universal?
>>
>> Which would be:
>>   default_variants +universal
>>   variant universal {}
>
> I would say no. I would say "universal_variant no" is currently 
> appropriate for software that is architecture-agnostic, like this perl 
> script.

Technically +universal would be 2 (or 4) architectures, while this is 
for 0 (zero) architectures.
That's why it is called "noarch" in some other packaging systems* (that 
call the universal "fat")

Having this "don't need compile" metadata in the Portfile is good, just 
that "universal" isn't it:
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12206

But it could be joined to a single variable, like Ryan is suggesting, 
as they do affect eachother ?
(if it doesn't have a machine architecture then it doesn't need to have 
a +universal variant either)

--anders

* that would be RPM (.noarch.rpm), while another name is used in DEB 
(.all.deb)
   difference being how many it is built for, versus how many that it 
applies to