[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: do not run prepare() with --noextract

[Allan McRae]

On 19/02/16 13:23, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:54 AM, Daniel Wallace
> <danielwallace at gtmanfred.com> wrote:
>> I kind of agree with this and would rather have a prepare switch to turn it
>> on with no extract.
> 
> That appears to be Allan's suggestion more or less; restoring the old
> behavior but also providing a --prepare option to allow running
> prepare() with --noextract. I'm advocating that such an option has a
> tiny or even nonexistent use case, to the point that it should not be
> implemented at all; i.e.: it would be inelegant to have such an
> option.
> 

I'm going to pull this patch. But if a good use-case for running
prepare() with --noextract is presented, either you need to provide a
patch providing a --prepare flag, or this will be reverted.

Allan