[aur-general] Package splitting

[Ray Rashif]

On 18 November 2010 21:43, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> Am Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:55:20 +0000
> schrieb Christopher Brannon <chris at the-brannons.com>:
>
>> That looks fine.  Are you thinking of writing a split PKGBUILD?  If
>> so, realize that the AUR doesn't support them.  You will need to
>> write a separate PKGBUILD for each component.
>
> There's a workaround for this even if it would be better if AUR would
> support split packages natively without needing a workaround.
>
> See the demo package splittest:
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42514

That works. And also you can include a generic/barebones PKGBUILD
which tells the user to rename a PKGBUILD.split (the real PKGBUILD) to
PKGBUILD.