[pacman-dev] makepkg patch - simple pkg class feature

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/1/14, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> On Jan 13, 2008 8:51 PM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > I just wanted to throw this out there - this feature in general is
> > straying away from the simplicity of PKGBUILDs.
> >
> > Can anyone give me a compelling reason why Dan's suggested
> > implementation of this feature is any better than just doing the
> > following:
> >
> > build () {
> >     source $startdir/src/perl.build;
> >
> >     pre_build();
> >     perl_build();
> >     post_build();
> > }
> >
> > Which, to me, is a ton clearer about what exactly is going on than
> > some seemingly random variable in the sea of PKGBUILD options called
> > 'buildlib=perl.build'.
> >
> > It feels too much like featuritis, and hiding stuff from the users, in
> > any of the implementations suggested.
>
> You made it much more simple than I did, thanks. This is EXACTLY what
> I was thinking. We don't even need some crazy buildlib feature- just a
> standard way to do stuff like this.
>
> My only thought is that Arch Linux could install some standard build
> files, such as perl.build, as part of a development package or
> something. That way each package wouldn't need to include it in its
> sources array.
>

I like that.
This seems like a build() counterpart to Jan's gconfpkg idea (which is
for .install).

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)