On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 02/10/13 22:58, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote:
To be honest I don't believe this option is useful at all. IMO one should write PKGBUILDs so that it works on subsequent rebuilds too. Also it can be implemented using alias/wrapper to run "rm -rf src/" before makepkg. But Alan mentioned it before and it was really simple to implement.
Hrm... "rm -r src/" is less keystrokes than "--clearsource" and an alias of the form makepkg='rm -r src/; makepkg' would work.
I want other peoples opinions here. Is it worth adding this option? I never strike the issues mentioned because I always build using the Arch devtools scripts and so even if my PKGBUILD is not reentrant, there is no issue. I think we can just close that bug report with the suggestion of using an alias.
Personally, I wouldn't use this option. To clean up my build directory, I use "rm -rf src pkg *.pkg.tar.xz *.log" wich is usually in my bash history so a few keystrokes is all I need .
Allan