Hi, I hope everyone had a great holiday! Perl module PKGBUILDs tend to be a mess and some build() functions are not "standard". Now with the new upcoming perl policy all of the PKGBUILDs need to be "standardized" again. To help combat this problem I hacked up a package class feature where all the functions and package defaults are set in a class file and sourced before the package is built. The class file can define a set of build functions to call instead of just build(). Some advantages: - standardization of package types, even AUR packages could be uniform - code in makepkg could be moved to a class so that it could easily be override by people doing non-standard things: no man pages, i585 ports - anything set in the PKGBUILD takes precedence over the class - defined build functions can be optional (see the sample perl class) The patch is backwards compatible with non-class PKGBUILDs and I have been using my classy makepkg for 5 days. Attached is the patch, a perl class, and sample PKGBUILD for Sys::Syslog. Right now the class file has to be in the same directory as the PKGBUILD. Happy New Year! k -- K. Piche <kpiche@rogers.com>