[aur-dev] [PATCH 1/1] use square brackets for annotations in pkg dependencies

Lukas Fleischer lfleischer at archlinux.org
Sat Oct 10 08:16:37 UTC 2015


On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 at 10:51:29, Christian Hesse wrote:
> From: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
> 
> Currently a package depending on `markdown` will have a listed
> dependency that looks like this:
> 
> markdown (discount) (make)
> 
> Where `dicount` is a package that provides `markdown`, make is an
> annotation to express the type of dependency.
> 
> Let's use square brackets for annotations in pkg dependencies, so this
> looks like:
> 
> markdown (discount) [make]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
> ---
>  web/lib/pkgfuncs.inc.php | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> [...]

We are trying to be consistent with archweb. It doesn't use square
brackets for this [1] so maybe you want to suggest the same thing there?

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/procmail/


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