Xavier:
Even better would be to replace the standard and easy checksums in
place , and just append the others at the end of the pkgbuild.
Ahh I see. In that case what we need is an edit which won't touch the unsupported areas. But that would mean being able to somehow check for their existence. Maybe Allan can take a look at that.
Dan:
Just remember this- if we release a feature that is half-baked, we
will pay for it. Look at optdepends and how many people think it is their right to have those parsed and we need options to install them and blah blah blah.
People will try to use this for all varieties of md5sums. People will file bug reports when it doesn't work on crazy PKGBUILDs. And most of all, people will be pissed if we mess up their PKGBUILD in any way, even if it was their fault.
Yes, precisely so. Especially when there are actually requests to make it an "unsupported" feature in makepkg =p