On Mon, 25 May 2015 23:05:11 -0400 Kyle <[email protected]> wrote: > According to Doug Newgard: > # There are no decent bash parsers out there. To get real info, they > would have > # to be sourced/executed, which is a huge security risk. > > In that case, why can PKGBUILD, which is already a bash script, not just > source .SRCINFO, which has its fields in roughly the same format? There > just has to be a better method of getting all the right information into > the right places without duplicating all the metadata. > Sent from my golf bag
Because the fields are in no way in the same format whatsoever.
