[pacman-dev] Add pkggrp variable for split packages?

[Allan McRae]

Xavier wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I like the idea, but fear "pkggrp" could get too confused with
>> "groups" in concept. I almost feel like "pkgbase" to indicate the base
>> or root of the split could be more useful, as I could see that being
>> useful for urls and the like.
>>
>> pkgname=(kdelibs-foo kdelibs-bar)
>> pkgbase=kdelibs
>> source=(kde.org/blah/blah/$pkgbase-$pkgver.tar.gz)
>> ...
>> build() {
>>   cd $srcdir/$pkgbase-$pkgver/
>>   ...
>> }
>>     
>
> Sounds good :) I could see pkgroot or pkgsource as alternatives but
> pkgbase might be better.

Good point about the potential group confusion.  I think I will go with 
pkgbase here.

Allan