[aur-general] Are AUR VCS packages that depend on AUR VCS packages from other projects a good idea and who should decide on that ?

[Lone_Wolf]

Hi,


recently a mesa developer contacted me and asked me to change mesa-git 
to depend on released llvm/clang instead of llvm/clang trunk.

He did convince me there's a demand for such a package.


Currently people wanting to build mesa-git against released versions 
need to edit the pkgbuild and make a few changes (not documented atm).

I have been building mesa trunk against llvm trunk since mesa started 
using llvm and tailored the package to my personal workflow and style.

Adjusting the mesa-git PKGBUILD to use repo llvm/clang would force me to 
either change my workflow or maintain a package I don't use in that form.

I'd probably stop maintaining mesa-git.


I do feel there's an underlying issue here that concerns us all as 
stated in the title:

Are AUR VCS packages that depend on AUR VCS packages from other projects 
a good idea and who should decide on that?


Lone_Wolf