Re: [arch-general] Possible to "inherit" from a package?

On 07/14/2018 02:42 AM, David Runge wrote:

@Peter: inheritance is not really a thing with PKGBUILDs afaik. However, you can do two things to get the desired results: Ask for inclusion of the feature with a feature request in the bug tracker or create your own local repository with precedence over the others in which you build your own version of dovecot.

+1 This is trivial to do if you've got a local git clone of the repository package, as you can take advantage of git rebase to forward-port your local modifications to newer releases. Alternatively there is https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=customizepkg -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User