On 04/06/10 10:25, Dan McGee wrote:
On Thursday, June 3, 2010, Allan McRae<[email protected]> wrote:Can anyone think of an actual use of $startdir in PKGBUILDs?It is used in VCS builds on occasion as the location of the dowloaded repo so that buildin clean (wiping out src/) doesn't force you to re-clone or whatever.
That is indeed a good usage. We will keep it then!I suppose a big push in Arch to replace $startdir usage will remind people once again not to use $startdir/{src,pkg}.
Allan
