[pacman-dev] [PATCH] RFC: remove upx and optipng support from makepkg

[Allan McRae]

On 03/02/16 00:18, Florian Pritz wrote:
> On 02.02.2016 02:44, Allan McRae wrote:
>> These options were added before libmakepkg allowed passes like this to be
>> dropped in.  I prefer only real core packaging tasks to be included in
>> makepkg and additional things like this to be dropped in by a user or
>> distribution that wants to support them.
> 
> The linux folks want as many modules in their tree as possible so that
> they can improve/change the interfaces between the core and the modules
> easily and without breaking third-party modules. I also have the feeling
> that any time I see software supporting plugins, these plugins are more
> often than not in bad shape, especially when they are maintained by a
> third party.

Linux wants to make sure everything boots and functions out of the box.
 I don't want to make makepkg achieve every possible packaging pass.  I
have already rejected a request to add SVG optimization (and something
else I can not remember...).

> These two modules seem to be really small and should not require much
> maintenance. Considering the points mentioned above I'd suggest to keep
> them.

I consider these modules unmaintained - I will not fix any bug in them
(e.g. we can not use either with a clean chroot) and no-one else really
works on makepkg...

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