On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Martti Kühne <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Lukas Fleischer > <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] >> >> So, you're basically evaluating all PKGBUILD variables on the client >> side, then print them into a file called "PKGBUILD.gen"? That's exactly >> what .AURINFO is, except it has another file name. > > > Except in my idea, delivering the original PKGBUILD would become > superfluous. You have a full egg with .AURINFO, so why would you still > want to provide the chicken?
It's not a full egg. You can't pre-evaluate the functions, which might use arbitrarily named, system-dependent, and conditionally defined variables.
