[pacman-dev] $startdir in PKGBUILDs

Can anyone think of an actual use of $startdir in PKGBUILDs? A change I am planning post 3.4 is to completely break $startdir/pkg == $pkgdir for single packages. I want all packaging to occur in $startdir/pkg/$pkgname as is currently done in split packages as this will make it a lot easier to split of debug symbols into a separate package. We have discouraged the use of $startdir for at least a couple of releases now, so people should be prepared... [1] So I would like to remove mention of $startdir from the PKGBUILD man page. Can anybody see a reason for keeping it? Allan [1] well, even some of the pacman devs still use it in PKGBUILDs... *cough* libarchive *cough* ;)