New comment by fosslinux on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/24357#issuecomment-676800808 Comment: Ok, replying to some comments here: @ericonr: > I like noarch because it enables me to build something like the void-docs package and put it in the release so that everyone can download it as a preview. @zdykstra does the same thing with zfsbootmenu, where it's even more useful because he does release candidates. What do you mean? I don't really understand this use-case. Is the idea you build once and then `XBPS_TARGET_ARCH=x86_^4-musl xbps-rindex -a *.xbps` for each architecture? Doing things like this is completely unsupported AFAICT. @ahesford > That noarch implies nodebug, nostrip, noshlibprovides and whatever else does not make it a useful shorthand for those things, because it also implies other things that are being disregarded by dropping current noarch functionality. I don't quite get what you mean. These other things are unnessecary, and the shorthand for `nodebug`, etc is useful for data packages. This is why I think we shouldr ename it.