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

[Xavier]

Travis Willard wrote:
> 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?
> 

Both suggestions makes sense in my opinion too.
I didn't like the current location of the proto files, I don't know what 
they are doing in core/. And you are right, it would probably fit better 
with makepkg than with all the others PKGBUILDs.
So I like your proposal.