Am Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:22:34 +0100 schrieb "Dicebot" <pub...@dicebot.lv>:
> `PKGBUILD` in Arch Linux is simply a standard package building > script, essentially a bash script with metadata. It is not a > package on its own, in is used to create ones. It is convenient > for maintenance to generate packages with a shared/related built > process from a single PKGBUILD. This, for example, is the one for > dmd stack : > https://github.com/Dicebot/Arch-PKGBUILDs/blob/master/dmd/PKGBUILD That looks very similar to an ebuild, with the major difference that a PKGBUILD can define multiple packages and an ebuild has USE flags I think. > If such package is a stand-alone application and does not seem to > be maintained for some time it can be adjusted to use DVM to > retrieve older version specifically to build itself. Not very > convenient, but won't at least pollute the system with dozens of > different compiler/phobos versions. We will see how bad it becomes, hehe. I hope that it will mostly be the last to versions of a compiler and one older version for the one program you happen to use that wasn't updated for a while. -- Marco