On 11/15/06, Daniel McGee
Forgot to put this in the last email. That last section in makepkg.conf (FUNCTIONALITY CONFIGURATION) is not something that users of a particular distro will be tweaking- it should pretty much stay the same. Should/could something like this be moved into the makepkg script itself? That way it is still 'variablized', but is more integrated as part of the program itself and less as a configuration option.
Dan
Well, I'm of the opinion that it should be configurable... I guess it could easilly go into makepkg itself, but I don't really see good/bad arguments either way, so it was really just a gut-instinct choice. I just assumed that if someone (frugalware) were to redistribute makepkg, it makes more sense to be able to use it out-of-the-box with a different config, than needed to sed the values out of it. Admittedly, they will probably end up being ./configure options anyway, so the argument above doesn't hold much water.