On 10/05/2008, at 11:16 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
What are peoples opinions on adding some libraries to makepkg that would quickly achieve some common tasks (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10375)? I think this is a trade of between the ease of interpretation of a single command and understanding what that command actually does. The need to import the function before use makes me lean on the side of including these.
If we go for this, I would recommend some fairly strict guidelines on their inclusion. e.g. 1) The function must be a command block in common use or have a good case made for why it will be in the future. 2) The function must be significantly complex so that using it helps with interpretation of the PKGBUILD.
I can think of one function which would save a lot of discussion around here: create_desktop_file(<progname>, <description>, <category>)
Allan
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I'm not sure that I like the idea very much. We should keep away from anything that makes PKGBUILDs more like Gentoo ebuilds. I love the simplicity and, I suppose, explicitness of PKGBUILDs because they are very easy to follow for anyone a bit familiar with shell. This might be nice for some very simple stuff that's tedious, but obvious. Anything that makes PKGBUILDs more cryptic than they currently are is a step backwards, in my opinion. Maybe I haven't created enough packages to see the benefits of this, but Gentoo ebuilds make me sick, and that is the direction I see this going. -- Sebastian Nowicki