[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Allow vendor based DLAGENT settings in makepkg.conf

[Dan McGee]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Yun Zheng Hu <yunzheng.hu at gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch will allow the default DLAGENT settings to be overridden in
> the configure script. This will allow better default DLAGENT settings
> for specific platforms/vendors. For example: Mac OS X does not have
> wget installed by default, but it does have curl by default.
>
> Currently the patch only overrides the default FTP and HTTP/HTTPS
> agents when configuring for Mac OS X.

I like the intent of this patch, but not the implementation. I'm
actually leaning away from all this customization stuff we do at all
in makepkg.conf with configure.ac, as I really don't think it belongs
there. I believe it is the responsibility of the downstream maintainer
to tweak some of the shipped defaults, which is what we already do
with Arch for both pacman.conf and makepkg.conf.

Anyone else have opinions on this? Am I way off-base?

-Dan