On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:19:37 +0200 Lone_Wolf <lonewolf@xs4all.nl> wrote:
Hi,
recently a mesa developer contacted me and asked me to change mesa-git to depend on released llvm/clang instead of llvm/clang trunk.
He did convince me there's a demand for such a package.
Currently people wanting to build mesa-git against released versions need to edit the pkgbuild and make a few changes (not documented atm).
I have been building mesa trunk against llvm trunk since mesa started using llvm and tailored the package to my personal workflow and style.
Adjusting the mesa-git PKGBUILD to use repo llvm/clang would force me to either change my workflow or maintain a package I don't use in that form.
I'd probably stop maintaining mesa-git.
I do feel there's an underlying issue here that concerns us all as stated in the title:
Are AUR VCS packages that depend on AUR VCS packages from other projects a good idea and who should decide on that?
Lone_Wolf
Is there any reason it depends specifically on the -git package? Most of the time, you depend on the release package and those that use the -git version just build against that, no other changes needed.