[pacman-dev] No .install messages standard yet?

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Sun Mar 4 23:13:09 EST 2007


On 3/4/07, kfs1 at online.no <kfs1 at online.no> wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:22:06 +0100, Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino
> <themolok.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think you should define a standard for the .install message to avoid
> > the actual anarchy and proliferation of very different styles.
> > Just my 2c,
> >
>
> hmm i don't know about this since sometimes different messages requires
> different wrappings..?
> but also it would be nice to have a generic wrapping...

Because install files are actually executed by bash, we should/could
standardize this by making some bash functions (similar to those in
/etc/rc.d/functions).  This would make it much easier to change in the
long run.

If anyone has any propositions, please post them here.




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