Yes I would also totally agree with the split package approach for an optional jre. And FYI, you can find CLion a perfect example for implementing this: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=clion .
Eli Schwartz via aur-general <[email protected]>于2017年2月6日周一 上午1:59写道： > On 02/05/2017 07:17 AM, Reto Kaiser wrote: > >> I personally prefer the flag thing > > [...] > >> The "-meta" thing is a little... > > [...] > >> The cleanest solution may very well be what we have now. > > > > Agree, the thing with the meta packages is a bit overcomplicated. > > How about a single PKGFILE, which creates two packages with the "split > > package" mechanism (one with, one without JRE). > > @uwolfer wdyt? I can prepare the code. > > Perhaps you could create two split packages, one for > intellij-idea-utimate-edition, one for the bundled JRE... and have the > former optdepend on the latter and on the system JRE. > > The four-way split, meta-package dependency is over-engineered, but > without the repo package providing ${pkgbase}-jre I don't see how to do > it via a clean dependency *at all*... since Arch Linux users are always > expected to pay attention to pacman's output e.g. optdepends, this > shouldn't pose a problem to users. > > It wouldn't be the first package to *need* at-least-one-of its > optdepends to be installed. > > -- > Eli Schwartz > > -- 张海 浙江大学 计算机科学与技术 Blog: http://blog.zhanghai.me/ Github: https://github.com/DreaminginCodeZH
