[pacman-dev] [PATCH v2] Provide a better guess about who the packager is.

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed Feb 1 16:39:21 UTC 2017


On 02/02/17 01:59, Kieran Colford wrote:
> The system usually has enough information in various places to guess
> the name and email of the person running the makepkg script.  We can
> use this to make the defaults more intelligent.  This particular
> implemenation should provide relatively good guess that's compatible
> with other programs (i.e. git).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kieran Colford <kieran at kcolford.com>

This will not be included in makepkg.  Any "guessing" will inevitably be
wrong at some stage and we will have more and more fixes requested on
top of this.

We have a single place to configure this information.  That is enough.

Allan


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