[pacman-dev] Libraries for makepkg

[Allan McRae]

What are peoples opinions on adding some libraries to makepkg that would 
quickly achieve some common tasks 
(http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10375)?  I think this is a trade of 
between the ease of interpretation of a single command and understanding 
what that command actually does.  The need to import the function before 
use makes me lean on the side of including these.

If we go for this, I would recommend some fairly strict guidelines on 
their inclusion. e.g.
1) The function must be a command block in common use or have a good 
case made for why it will be in the future.
2) The function must be significantly complex so that using it helps 
with interpretation of the PKGBUILD.

I can think of one function which would save a lot of discussion around 
here:
create_desktop_file(<progname>, <description>, <category>)

Allan