On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:13 PM, DJ Mills <danielmills1@gmail.com> wrote:

Instead of using || echo, which IMO is a silly hack, the only proper way to check the exit status of a command substitution is:

if ! var=$(command); then   commands fi

Why isn't this in the commit message? Please read HACKING (http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/submitting-patches.html), send patches inline, and include a signoff. Thanks!

This patch changes that in makepkg, and gets rid of a pre-optimization that served no purpose in in_array().

Thanks.