[arch-general] Best way to make makepkg use pacman-color

[Martti Kühne]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 09:39:04PM +0100, Alex Ferrando wrote:
<snip>
> I got curious and started looking for information about a way of
> doing makepkg to use pacman-color instead of pacman. However the
> only way found is to modify the makepkg script itself, if I'm not
> wrong editing the line 2089:
> 
> PACMAN=${PACMAN:-pacman}

export PACMAN=pacman-color
make sure it's sourced, .bashrc is a convenient place for things like that.
more on default expansion in http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/100#Default_or_alternate_values

> c) something that I'm forgetting

yup.

cheers!
mar77i