[pacman-dev] /etc/makepkg.local

[Xavier]

Mark Constable wrote:
> On 2008-07-27, Allan McRae wrote:
>>>  [ -f /etc/makepkg.local ] && source /etc/makepkg.local
>> And if everyone has different functions in makepkg.local then PKGBUILDs 
>> become non-transferable across users.  Bad!
> 
> That is vaguely possible if someone tried hard enough to write
> non-conforming functions but the main idea is to assist those that
> want their own *local* hooks and would prefer not to have to patch
> makepkg.conf.
> 

You are not willing to patch makepkg.conf, but you are willing to write 
non-transferable PKGBUILDs?
I really don't get the point.