Re: [pacman-dev] Splitting packages in makepkg

I see a downside in the proposed scheme: you can not create a package without the $pkgname- suffix, e.g. you can't create the "kopete" or "kmail" package from "kdenetwork". Moreover, you can't change the pkgdesc for each sub-package, which can be useful.

makepkg may use subpackages as a new package name subpackages=(foo-dev foo-doc kmail kopete)