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. This is a call for comments or other prototypes to implement this function. Some "rules" to help us all with this: 1) If submitting a new idea, attach a complete prototype (based on the one distributed with pacman) so we can see all details of how the packaging is done. Add notes if necessary. Point out the advantages of your method. 2) Note that the ability to separate the building and packaging stages of a PKGBUILD is going to be added to makepkg so that fakeroot is used for the smallest amount of time. Any new prototype should account for this. 3) No comments about how splitting packages is bad and this will be the ruin of Arch. Arch does not favor package splitting in its main repos and this will not change that fact. Allan