Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > fredagen den 2 maj 2008 skrev Xavier: > > >> I don't think they have to coexist. >> I used -s a billion times (well, every single time makepkg complained >> about missing deps), and I didn't use -b once. And I would think I am >> not alone in that case. >> > > I have used -b a million times. If you want to build a single package, with > all dependencies, from source, you need it. Co-existence of -s and -b would > make it much more useful. Actually, I used such a version when: > > shakti:~$ find /server/srv/ftp/archi586/ -name '*-i586.pkg.tar.gz' | wc > 2587 2587 173147 > shakti:~$ > > I did not build all those packages by hand, but with the help of makepkg -b > and makeworld. Both very useful, and both custom patched. >
This is a good point that I hadn't even considered. I think that porting to other architectures in itself is a perfectly valid reason for keeping the -b flag. Allan _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
