Re: [pacman-dev] Splitting packages in makepkg

Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Sergej Pupykin wrote:

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I see a downside in the proposed scheme: you can not create a package without the $pkgname- suffix, e.g. you can't create the "kopete" or "kmail" package from "kdenetwork". Moreover, you can't change the pkgdesc for each sub-package, which can be useful. makepkg may use subpackages as a new package name

subpackages=(foo-dev foo-doc kmail kopete)

Exactly what I was going to say - it's all hypothetical. We could use $pkgdir/full-package-name/* for a subpackage "full-package-name"

Does that answer the second concern about pkgdesc? There are several other variables that could change as well (backup, group, etc)