[pacman-dev] pacman-4.2 plans?

William Giokas 1007380 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 17 23:02:28 EDT 2013


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 07:58:48PM -0700, Aaron DeVore wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > - Remove of support for PKGBUILDs with only a build() function
> >
> 
> Any chance of delaying that change further? There's a staggeringly large
> number of packages in the AUR that rely on build() having access to
> $pkgdir, including some of the most popular packages. From a quick look,
> over 10 thousand packages would break.

I don't see why they should be exempt at all. Every package build should
have a package() function. They're making packages, I think, not just
building things.

Thanks,
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