Re: [pacman-dev] makepkg in a constrained environment

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Cedric Staniewski <cedric@gmx.ca> wrote:

I do not agree with your definition of "portable" here. All of makepkgs dependencies are available for (mostly?) every system pacman can run on, so it is already "portable". Adding fallbacks only may make it easier to install/run makepkg in a specific setup. A setup where you cannot install all of makepkg's dependencies with a reasonable effort seems rather exotic to me and does not justify such an inappropriate increase in complexity of makepkg in my opinion. Why do you not write bash wrappers which provide the functionality of bsdtar/openssl/... and add these to your path?

I often agree with Cedric.. this is just another occurence :)