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

[eliott]

> On Jan 4, 2008 9:11 AM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> 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.

Sounds good to me too.

On 1/4/08, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Original decisions die hard :). Take a glance at contrib/ in the
> pacman source- there you will find PKGBUILD.proto and proto.install,
> which should always be the canonical definition. I think it would be
> very wise for us to install these with the pacman package somewhere in
> /usr/share, and maybe have some symlinks for old times sake in the abs
> package from /var/abs/.

I don't think we even need to symlink them.
If we just provide a README in the /var/abs/ root with high level
information about abs, we could slap a 'proto files are located in
/usr/share....' or wherever.