On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 08:25:23PM +0000, Xyne wrote:
Hi,
I completely missed the discussion in September about removing the "--pkg" option from makepkg. Without that option, "makepkg -irs" can only be used to install all packages from a split PKGBUILD, but a user often wants to install just one package (e.g [1]). Makepkg's automatic dependency resolution and installation is very useful for automation, and scripting "pacman -U" requires assumptions about expected package names that are likely error-prone and thus not a viable alternative.
Note that you can now also use makepkg to list the names of the packages that it would generate, using the --packagelist flag.
I opened a bug report about this before seeing the thread. I bring it up here for further discussion as this is where its removal was discussed.
Regards, Xyne
[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1604418#p1604418