Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add a --clearsource option to clear the source directory before build.

How about "makepkg -C" instead? It's reasonably short and fast to write, and if an even shorter alias is desired, that is possible too. There is a reason that "make clean" turned out to be a good idea instead of manually removing files. If nothing else, it can be used to reduce the chance of deleting the wrong files. --- Best regards, Alexander Rødseth xyproto / TU