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

[Dan McGee]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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.

+1 from me.