[arch-general] resurrecting srcpac

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:07 AM, eliott <eliott at cactuswax.net> wrote:
>> On 5/22/08, Michael Klier <chi at chimeric.de> wrote:
>>> Hi Archers,
>>>
>>> <big snip>
>>>
>>
>> oh man. I got excited reading this.
>>
>> I really like the first change you made. Using a directory with
>> package specific sed changes on a per file basis is a kick ass idea.
>
> I agree, this is a smart move. My only real thought is why have
> anything in /etc/ at all? It would be great if this could all be done
> non-root for editing any config settings and such. Maybe ~/.srcpac/ or
> something?
>
> It also seems almost overkill to need another user to build packages,
> but not sure what to think about that. Anyway, great work with this.

srcpac is also a wrapper around pacman, so it can install packages -
hence the need for root.