[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: make SRCPKGDEST default to $startdir

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 02/02/11 01:43, Dan McGee wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Cedric Staniewski<cedric at gmx.ca>  wrote:
>>>
>>> The current behaviour, which is placing source packages in PKGDEST if
>>> SRCPKGDEST is not set, is inconsistent with {SRC,PKG}DEST handling and
>>> there is no real advantage in doing so.
>>
>> Other than preserving backward compatibility and the way it has worked
>> for 2-3 years...
>>
>> I don't have a super strong opinion, but to pretend like this isn't on
>> purpose is not true at all.
>>
>
> I will give this an ack...
>
> Mainly because, if I wanted to set PKGDEST and keep SRCPKGDEST as the
> default (when both PKGDEST and SRCPKGDEST are unset - i.e. $startdir), it
> would not be obvious how to do this.
>
> And even though it is documented in the man page under SRCPKGDEST, it is not
> particularly obvious that adjusting PKGDEST will affect SRCPKGDEST.

OK, I'll concede.

-Dan