What are the benefits of NO_ARCH?

[Stefan Esser]

Am 02.11.20 um 15:33 schrieb Mateusz Piotrowski:
> Hi ports@,
> 
> I wonder if setting NO_ARCH=yes brings any significant benefits to how 
> our ports collection works. I'd be grateful if you could shed some light 
> on the importance of setting NO_ARCH whenever possible.

NO_ARCH means that there is no need to build packages for each of the
supported architectures, e.g. for pure interpreted scripts or data files
that do not depend on byte-order and word-size (e.g. many font file
formats).

The result is reduced resources spent on building the packages, network
traffic, disk space on mirrors and on distribution media.

Regards, STefan
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