On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Eli Schwartz via aur-general < aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 08/23/2016 10:24 AM, Chi Hsuan Yen wrote:
Python packages are not good examples for this thread.
Whyever not? It seems an excellent example to me...
All Python build commands can be put into package(), while GTK applications not. It doesn't make a difference with current pacman and makepkg, though.
I mention my script as I find it useful for handling such cases. As Bruno said, using two separate packages is the choice. My script just reduces the overhead of maintaining two separate PKGBUILDs.
I am not sure how that is supposed to answer my question. I am simply wondering why any of that has anything to do with your factually incorrect claim that you ended up (ab)using multiple PKGBUILDs *as a result of* makepkg dropping support for the "--pkg" flag.
Because, once again, if you really thought it was important to save casual AUR users the horrifying burden of temporarily installing an extra makedepends... then they would have always had to, and you would have had a problem for a lot longer.
Not that that is actually a valid excuse for using separate PKGBUILDs... but it just goes to show that even your own argument in favor, is severely flawed.
-- Eli Schwartz