[pacman-dev] makepkg --pkg for selective installation of split packages

[Xyne]

On 2016-02-14 21:37 +0000
Xyne wrote:

>On 2016-02-14 15:31 -0500
>Dave Reisner wrote:
>
>>Note that you can now also use makepkg to list the names of the packages
>>that it would generate, using the --packagelist flag.  
>
>I am going to use that as a workaround but even after splitting apart the
>components (pkgname, pkgver, arch) and making sure that the name matches, it
>will require assumptions about the package archive extension (or sourcing of
>makepkg.conf, but that requires knowledge of which makepkg.conf was used to be
>rigorous). Nothing comes close to the cleanliness of the --pkg option.
>
>Incidentally, that option was also useful to avoid storing unwanted packages at
>PKGDEST.

Implementing the workaround right now I've noticed that another issue with the
separate invocation of pacman -U is that any dependencies installed via
"makepkg -rs" are removed and then re-installed during installation with
pacman, while omitting "-r" will leave makedeps.