[pacman-dev] makepkg -b is wrong

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Allan McRae <mcrae_allan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Karolina Lindqvist wrote:
>  > fredagen den 2 maj 2008 skrev Xavier:
>  >
>  >
>  >> I don't think they have to coexist.
>  >> I used -s a billion times (well, every single time makepkg complained
>  >> about missing deps), and I didn't use -b once. And I would think I am
>  >> not alone in that case.
>  >>
>  >
>  > I have used -b a million times. If you want to build a single package, with
>  > all dependencies, from source, you need it. Co-existence of -s and -b would
>  > make it much more useful. Actually, I used such a version when:
>  >
>  > shakti:~$ find /server/srv/ftp/archi586/ -name '*-i586.pkg.tar.gz' | wc
>  >    2587    2587  173147
>  > shakti:~$
>  >
>  > I did not build all those packages by hand, but with the help of makepkg -b
>  > and makeworld. Both very useful, and both custom patched.
>  >
>
>  This is a good point that I hadn't even considered.  I think that
>  porting to other architectures in itself is a perfectly valid reason for
>  keeping the -b flag.

I think it gives a valid reason for keeping the functionality that -b
provides somewhere, but I'm not convinced that it has to be in
makepkg.

Why couldn't anything dealing with building packages besides the one
asked for be dealt with elsewhere?

-Dan