As my advanced "PKGBUILD" mentor you really have high expections sometimes :) However, top-posting is a preference which I'm comfortable with. Allan made perfectly clear that such netiquette( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting) is not welcome here, so I respectfully unsubscribe from this mailing list. Also, I'm not familiar with frugalware, nor will I ever be. I know debian package management, and I've tried to implement some basic concepts. I wish you good luck with the makepkg script and the package spitting. On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
I did not understand 90% of what Ali H. Caliskan said, and I cannot understand how someone can keep top-posting after 3 different people asked him to comply to the bottom-posting rule, but well...
I just wanted to say that the example he gave reminded me of frugalware's handling of split packages : http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-June/006778.html
I am sorry I did not realize that 1 year earlier, but I much prefer their solution (or probably a mix between both), because it allows easy parsing of pkgbuilds using bash.
The current format is quite hard (and inefficient) to parse :
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=dbscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=d455a0b2cd72cd...
However the current format looks much nicer and readable, and this might be a more important aspect. And more importantly, it's already in use and working :)