2007/9/2, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
On 9/1/07, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
We should have a unified way of doing these things. Frugalware can do it with their F* macros, Debian can do it with dh_*, Gentoo has their Eclasses, why can't we do this?
Because everyone passes the buck and wants everyone else to implement their ideas?
Go ahead and do it. Make a script, I'm sure we could figure out some way to get it into things elegantly... like say: /etc/makepkg.d/perl Then have makepkg load that somehow.
/me shrugs
I disagree with this sort of stuff, so I would never do it, and I'm sure a handful of other people feel the same - but if you do it, and it breaks nothing, I see no reason why we couldn't integrate it.
You can send patches to Dan or I
I do like gconfpkg. It greatly simplifies creation of PKGBUILDs for Gnome applications. It is included in gconf package for 2 months already, so I think AUR packages can start using it. The good thing is that solution like gconfpkg doesn't require any changes to Pacman. The bad thing is that this solution can be used only for packages that depend on a package which include such script. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)