[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: remove ability to build individual packages

[Que Quotion]

In other words, rather than fix the packages to be safer and more logical,
go ahead and let people write sloppy PKGBUILDs?

For what it's worth, I think this is a bad idea.

The changes needed to fix the packages are small, and this would reduce the
ability of users to automate upgrading from ABS.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 23/09/15 00:20, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> > I might have missed something in the previous messages, but is there any
> > rationale on this, beside debatable worthiness?
> >
>
> Many packages break when using this.
>
> Some are because assumptions made on build() about the value of $pkgname
> which changes when --pkg was used.  These should use $pkgbase anyway...
>
> Also, there are quite a few split packages that rely on the first first
> split-package being packaged for the rest of the package functions to
> work.   This will become more prevalent when a way to do a "make
> install" followed by moving files into different packages becomes
> available (i.e. rpm packaging style - I am working on this).
>
> So...  essentially, it is (debatably) broken and will become more broken
> in the future
>