[aur-general] Updating MATE Packages

[Michael Straube]

> Sean Fennell <eadrom> wrote:
>
>> I'm still getting up to speed on the development side of Arch.  I've not
>> altered the PKGBUILD's in any major ways, outside of bringing them up to
>> 1.14.  If there are major changes that need to be made or any tips or
>> other helpful and constructive criticism, I welcome the feedback.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/Eadrom/arch_mate
>>
>
> I haven't looked in detail, just a couple of comments:
>
> - If the GTK2 and GTK3 versions are built from the same source, then a split
> GTK2/GTK3 package is the way to go. Having separate PKGBUILDs for each
> version just doubles the maintenance work for no good reason (every fix and
> update would need to be applied twice).
> - You should remove the install files that run commands already handled by
> hooks. See https://www.archlinux.org/todo/hooks-part-1/

@eadrom:
If it's a matter of time I could help you out a little bit.
For example I could handle the .install files if you haven't done that
already. Let me know (email me) if you are interested...

Regards,
Michael