On 10/05/2008, at 11:16 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > What are peoples opinions on adding some libraries to makepkg that > would > quickly achieve some common tasks > (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10375)? I think this is a trade of > between the ease of interpretation of a single command and > understanding > what that command actually does. The need to import the function > before > use makes me lean on the side of including these. > > If we go for this, I would recommend some fairly strict guidelines on > their inclusion. e.g. > 1) The function must be a command block in common use or have a good > case made for why it will be in the future. > 2) The function must be significantly complex so that using it helps > with interpretation of the PKGBUILD. > > I can think of one function which would save a lot of discussion > around > here: > create_desktop_file(<progname>, <description>, <category>) > > Allan > > > > _______________________________________________ > pacman-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
I'm not sure that I like the idea very much. We should keep away from anything that makes PKGBUILDs more like Gentoo ebuilds. I love the simplicity and, I suppose, explicitness of PKGBUILDs because they are very easy to follow for anyone a bit familiar with shell. This might be nice for some very simple stuff that's tedious, but obvious. Anything that makes PKGBUILDs more cryptic than they currently are is a step backwards, in my opinion. Maybe I haven't created enough packages to see the benefits of this, but Gentoo ebuilds make me sick, and that is the direction I see this going. -- Sebastian Nowicki _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
