Hi All, I'm uploading a pkg for an mpris2 plugin for Kupfer. I don't want to clone the whole git repo (seems wasteful and I think half the code there is dead) and the only part that I'm interested in is the mpris2 folder. The only way I've found of checking out part of a repo in is to use the sparse checkout trick. The question I have is whether or not it's OK to use this in a PKGBUILD or not, what say ye wise men?! PKGBUILD below for reference (depends on pkgs I haven't uploaded yet if you try building) Thanks Simon -- # Contributor: sausageandeggs <sausageandeggs@archlinux.us> pkgname=kupfer-mpris2-plugin pkgver=20111221 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Control mpris compatable media players from Kupfer" arch=(any) url="https://github.com/hugosenari/Kupfer-Plugins" license=('GPL') depends=('mpris2-git') makedepends=('git') _gitroot="git://github.com/hugosenari/Kupfer-Plugins" _gitname="Kupfer-Plugins" build() { cd "${srcdir}" msg "Connecting to GIT server..." if [ -d ${_gitname} ] ; then cd ${_gitname} && git pull ${_gitname} master msg "The local files are updated." else mkdir ${_gitname} cd ${_gitname} git init git remote add ${_gitname} ${_gitroot} git config core.sparsecheckout true echo mpris2-player >> .git/info/sparse-checkout git pull ${_gitname} master fi msg "GIT checkout done or server timeout" } package(){ cd "${srcdir}/${_gitname}" install -d ${pkgdir}/usr/share/kupfer/kupfer/plugin install mpris2-player/* ${pkgdir}/usr/share/kupfer/kupfer/plugin/ }