[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] makepkg: allow to specify an alternative pacman command

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ check_deps() {
>>        if (( ret == 127 )); then #unresolved deps
>>                echo "$pmout"
>>        elif (( ret )); then
>> -               error "$(gettext "Pacman returned a fatal error (%i):
>> %s")" "$ret" "$pmout"
>> +               error "$(gettext "%s returned a fatal error (%i): %s")"
>> "${PACMAN##*/}" "$ret" "$pmout"
>
> Should we also strip any flags provided in the PACMAN variable?  e.g. I
> could set PACMAN="pacman -v" for verbose output.  I guess some wrappers
> might have flags that would be useful to specify.

I would say no to this; if a person wants flags then we shouldn't mess
with them.

-Dan