On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Now that pacman 3.2 is out the door and the initial bug fixes appear done, I am going to work on adding the package splitting feature to makepkg.
So the time has come for some input on the prototype PKGBUILD for splitting packages again. We discussed this a couple of months ago on this list (http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-June/012123.html). From that discussion I have come up with a PKGBUILD prototype which I like (prototype 1 at http://dev.archlinux.org/~allan/splitpkg.html) which is inspired by the KDEMod method but has a few significant differences.
I had a quick look at the prototype and it looked fine. Then I had a quick look at the comments I made in the previous thread, and all the issues I discussed were dealt with: 1) a way to override the package variables 2) a style close enough to the one already in use by kdemod, that is multi functions (it was my favorite style anyway) 3) usage of subdirs to allow the possibility of -R / repackage So it looks great to me.