Why aren't R packages noarch?

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:25:12AM +0100, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> > > Platform dependent files MUST be in %{_libdir}. There is no reason, why
> > > noarch packages should not use %{_libdir}.
> > > Making R use two locations for its packages (thereby causing more
> > > problems than it is worth) only based on whether a package includes
> > > binaries or not only causes confusion.
> > Works for perl.
> I see not perl packages in %{_datadir}, or has this changed in devel?

They're not in %{_datadir}, but they are in two different locations
depending on arch-specific or not.

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