[arch-general] split packages documentation

[Ali H. Caliskan]

As my advanced "PKGBUILD" mentor you really have high expections sometimes
:) However, top-posting is a preference which I'm comfortable with. Allan
made perfectly clear that such netiquette(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting) is not welcome here, so I
respectfully unsubscribe from this mailing list.

Also, I'm not familiar with frugalware, nor will I ever be. I know debian
package management, and I've tried to implement some basic concepts. I wish
you good luck with the makepkg script and the package spitting.


On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I did not understand 90% of what Ali H. Caliskan said, and I cannot
> understand how someone can keep top-posting after 3 different people
> asked him to comply to the bottom-posting rule, but well...
>
> I just wanted to say that the example he gave reminded me of
> frugalware's handling of split packages :
> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-June/006778.html
>
> I am sorry I did not realize that 1 year earlier, but I much prefer
> their solution (or probably a mix between both), because it allows
> easy parsing of pkgbuilds using bash.
>
> The current format is quite hard (and inefficient) to parse :
>
> http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=dbscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=d455a0b2cd72cd08b7b6cde878a29841f77a041e#patch2
>
> However the current format looks much nicer and readable, and this
> might be a more important aspect. And more importantly, it's already
> in use and working :)
>