[pacman-dev] documenting the base-devel split

[Aaron Griffin]

On Nov 8, 2007 5:27 PM, R. Dale Thomas <rdt at knoppmyth.net> wrote:
> Makepkg is not a generic package and its man page would not be
> included in generic man-pages on other distro's

That's actually false. As Dan said, ArchLinux users are not the only
ones using makepkg.

Even if this weren't the case - makepkg is INTENDED to be used
elsewhere. makepkg and pacman are brothers. It's hard to use pacman
without makepkg and hard to use makepkg with pacman.