On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:33:38 -0400 Eli Schwartz via aur-general <aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
PKGBUILDs are based around 1 build, not one source.
Says who? I'll say that PKGBUILDs are based around "one logically contiguous thing to desire to create"...
How about the Pacman/makepkg developers? https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/38160
You call multiple PKGBUILDs abuse. I call copying the entire source and running two builds in a single PGKBUILD abuse. There is only one build function for a reason. ...
FUD aside, the prevailing opinion by Developers, Trusted Users, and AUR contributors is against you. As Levente said, it is not very sensible to maintain and bump pkgvers for multiple PKGBUILDs, then download and build them all separately one by one.
As a maintainer, it is a waste of effort, and as someone building both packages, it is a waste of effort.
So the minority opinion is automatically wrong now? The devs I've talked to will admit it's a hack, it just doesn't matter much in the repos so they think it's worth it. The AUR is different. I was just going to let this topic go until you started going after someone who was doing things right, even though it's slightly more work for them.