What are the benefits of NO_ARCH?

[Mateusz Piotrowski]

On 11/2/20 3:50 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 03:48:34PM +0100, Stefan Esser wrote:
>> Am 02.11.20 um 15:33 schrieb Mateusz Piotrowski:
>>> 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.
> Yes that is the goal, in practice it is not yet the case, so it is purely
> informational, but that what we are aiming at yes.

Thanks!