On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/10/13 22:58, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > > To be honest I don't believe this option is useful at all. IMO one > > should write PKGBUILDs so that it works on subsequent rebuilds too. > > Also it can be implemented using alias/wrapper to run "rm -rf src/" > > before makepkg. But Alan mentioned it before and it was really simple > > to implement. > > Hrm... "rm -r src/" is less keystrokes than "--clearsource" and an > alias of the form makepkg='rm -r src/; makepkg' would work. > > I want other peoples opinions here. Is it worth adding this option? I > never strike the issues mentioned because I always build using the Arch > devtools scripts and so even if my PKGBUILD is not reentrant, there is > no issue. I think we can just close that bug report with the suggestion > of using an alias. > > Personally, I wouldn't use this option. To clean up my build directory, I use "rm -rf src pkg *.pkg.tar.xz *.log" wich is usually in my bash history so a few keystrokes is all I need . > Allan > >
