> > Xavier: > > Even better would be to replace the standard and easy checksums in > place , and just append the others at the end of the pkgbuild. >
Ahh I see. In that case what we need is an edit which won't touch the unsupported areas. But that would mean being able to somehow check for their existence. Maybe Allan can take a look at that. > Dan: Just remember this- if we release a feature that is half-baked, we > will pay for it. Look at optdepends and how many people think it is > their right to have those parsed and we need options to install them > and blah blah blah. > > People will try to use this for all varieties of md5sums. People will > file bug reports when it doesn't work on crazy PKGBUILDs. And most of > all, people will be pissed if we mess up their PKGBUILD in any way, > even if it was their fault. Yes, precisely so. Especially when there are actually requests to make it an "unsupported" feature in makepkg =p
