On 2008-07-27, Allan McRae wrote:
[ -f /etc/makepkg.local ] && source /etc/makepkg.local
And if everyone has different functions in makepkg.local then PKGBUILDs become non-transferable across users. Bad!
That is vaguely possible if someone tried hard enough to write non-conforming functions but the main idea is to assist those that want their own *local* hooks and would prefer not to have to patch makepkg.conf.
A "better" idea, but still not necessarily a good one, is to make a library that can be sourced: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10375 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/1588 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/1571
Comment in the top bug report if you have ideas for useful functions.
But that depends on someone else accepting proposed functions and kind of defeats the purpose of allowing someone to use custom *local* functions for their own reasons. --markc