> ts=2 sw=2

Some text editors have formatting configuration that unify editing from within files, and this is how they work. For Vim, ts is tab space and sw is shift width ( http://www.answers.com/topic/tab-stop ). Even Kate has something similar. As such, everyone that opens the file with Vim for reading/writing will have the same tab space and shift width. If you feel "forced", think of it as a bonus rather than an annoyance since a tab space of 2 is keeping it simple and unified.

I'm more interested as to why there's a contradiction between the above TU's suggestion and the sample buildscripts (I'm sure they were updated fairly recently). Is it a more recent cosmetic shift, then?

> Contributor: the person who wrote the first PKGBUILD for this package

Isn't it for any "maintainer" in _unsupported_ regardless of whether that person is the submitter? These are trivial matters which a TU should know about at the back of his/her head, but I'm just barging in to ask since they've been brought up anyway.