On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Eli Schwartz via aur-general < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/23/2016 10:24 AM, Chi Hsuan Yen wrote: > > Python packages are not good examples for this thread. > > Whyever not? It seems an excellent example to me... > > All Python build commands can be put into package(), while GTK applications not. It doesn't make a difference with current pacman and makepkg, though. > > I mention my script as I find it useful for handling such cases. As > > Bruno said, using two separate packages is the choice. My script just > > reduces the overhead of maintaining two separate PKGBUILDs. > > I am not sure how that is supposed to answer my question. I am simply > wondering why any of that has anything to do with your factually > incorrect claim that you ended up (ab)using multiple PKGBUILDs *as a > result of* makepkg dropping support for the "--pkg" flag. > > Because, once again, if you really thought it was important to save > casual AUR users the horrifying burden of temporarily installing an > extra makedepends... then they would have always had to, and you would > have had a problem for a lot longer. > > Not that that is actually a valid excuse for using separate PKGBUILDs... > but it just goes to show that even your own argument in favor, is > severely flawed. > > -- > Eli Schwartz >
