On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:58:38PM -0500, Mark Schneider wrote:
> On 9/21/07, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Mister Dobalina schrieb:
> > > Now that gcc/gcc-libs is split, does it matter what
> > > order they are built in? Should it be
> > > build,install,build,install or
> > > build,build,install,install?
> >
> > Doesn't matter. Right now, a complete gcc bootstrap is done when
> > building each of them. This takes a lot longer, but results in clean
> > packages.
> >
> > Right now, makepkg cannot build split packages, therefore this is the
> > best way.
> >
> 
> I apologize if this has been discussed prior, but are there future
> plans for makepkg to build split packages?
> 

There is a recent feature request about it, including a patch :
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7982

And also a beginning of discussion on pacman-dev ML :
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-September/009380.html

So it might be not totally hopeless.

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