6 May
2011
6 May
'11
7:57 a.m.
On Fri, 06 May 2011 17:45:13 +1000 Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 06/05/11 17:31, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
adding exceptions in download-repo.sh to work around limitations in our repo scripts is not the way to go imho. let's get those packages out of core the proper way, and let's see if/how we can cut another 10MB.
That limitation in the devtools/db-scripts has been around ever since split packages became available in pacman/makepkg. I would not bank on it getting fixed in the short term (or even in the long term...)
Allan
hmm, then is it at least possible to put a hack/workaround/list of exceptions in those tools to workaround the problem? Dieter