[pacman-dev] [abs] Proto files and Makeworld

[Travis Willard]

Hey guys,

With ABS splitting off from pacman, I was wondering where makeworld and the
.proto files belonged.

To me, makeworld seems to be an abs tool (and even mentions ABS in its
usage) so it would seem to belong in the abs project, not with pacman
itself.

The proto files (PKGBUILD.proto, install.proto, and possibly a
ChangeLog.proto?) seem to belong with makepkg in my mind.  Any changes in
these proto files would be directly caused by changes to makepkg, and the
coupling of putting them in with the pacman package seems to make sense.
I've never understood why we sync them with abs in the first place - if
someone wants a prototype PKGBUILD to start from, why should they have to
download the entirety of our repos' build scripts?

In short, I think we should move makeworld to the abs project/package, and
move the prototype files into the pacman project/package, perhaps in
/usr/share/pacman/*proto?

Thoughts?

--
Travis
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