On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:19:37 +0200 Lone_Wolf <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > > recently a mesa developer contacted me and asked me to change mesa-git > to depend on released llvm/clang instead of llvm/clang trunk. > > He did convince me there's a demand for such a package. > > > Currently people wanting to build mesa-git against released versions > need to edit the pkgbuild and make a few changes (not documented atm). > > I have been building mesa trunk against llvm trunk since mesa started > using llvm and tailored the package to my personal workflow and style. > > Adjusting the mesa-git PKGBUILD to use repo llvm/clang would force me to > either change my workflow or maintain a package I don't use in that form. > > I'd probably stop maintaining mesa-git. > > > I do feel there's an underlying issue here that concerns us all as > stated in the title: > > Are AUR VCS packages that depend on AUR VCS packages from other projects > a good idea and who should decide on that? > > > Lone_Wolf Is there any reason it depends specifically on the -git package? Most of the time, you depend on the release package and those that use the -git version just build against that, no other changes needed.
