[aur-general] Maintainer vs Contributor tag let's find a solution ; )

Loui Chang louipc.ist at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 22:36:47 EDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:56:33AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>  My summary of this:
> 
>  1) Maintainer tag:  It is a comment - makepkg does not care so nor should 
>  you
> 
>  2) $foo vs ${foo} : they do the same thing (except in rare cases where 
>  brackets are needed...) - makepkg does not care so nor should you.
> 
>  3) "$srcdr" vs $srcdir.  The quotes are good for people who build in 
>  directories with spaces in their name - so it may be good to use quotes.  
>  But I don't care about people who use spaces in directory names, so I am not 
>  going to do this.  Note the prototype does include quotes...
> 
>  4) $startdir/src vs $srcdir.   $srcdir is correct.  As stated in the 
>  PKGBUILD man page, there is no guarantee that these will continue to point 
>  at the same directory in future pacman versions.

Case closed!


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