[pacman-dev] inside PKGBUILD customizable makepkg PURGE_TARGETS

[Allan McRae]

Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:
>     Hello all!
> 
>     Again I have a proposal to enhance makepkg PURGE_TARGETS handling.
> 
>     I think that enabling customizing PURGE_TARGETS inside PKGBUILD
> would be a benefit in the following context:

Without checking, I would have thought that exporting 
"PURGE_TRAGETS=..." within a package function would just work.  I guess 
the old value would not be restored afterwards though.

>     * I have a software package that contains: an application, a
> static library, a dynamic library, and some development files;
>     * I want to create separate packages: something-bin, something-lib
> (shared library), something-dev (include and static library), and
> maybe something-doc;
> 
>     What I have to do today (maybe there is a different way, please
> correct me): I create a `something-lib_package` function in which I
> make a normal install, but then I delete all unneeded files.

Given this is a fairly common thing to do in the Linux world, most 
software supports this in the Makefiles. "make install-libs" "make 
install-docs" etc.