NOT_FOR_ARCHS considered harmful [was: with the cvs history? trying to help INDEX builds.]

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> Finally, all this testing the CPU architecture and the OS version
> makes no sense at all for ports that don't install any compiled
> binaries, such as shell scripts.

Unless said script runs something CPU- or OSversion-specific, e.g.
to perform operations that are supported only in recent geom, or to
report on the configuration of ACPI or the new USB subsystem.