It would be extremely nice to have shallow clone support for some packages. The Unreal git repo requires pulling down 20 gigabytes for a build, taking maybe a half hour each time. On Mar 3, 2018 1:53 AM, "Adam Levy via arch-general" < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > I recently came across this closed feature request for a way to perform a > shallow clone with makepkg. > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52957 > > The closing comment was: > Closed by Andrew Gregory (andrewgregory) > Monday, 13 February 2017, 17:29 GMT-9 > Reason for closing: Won't implement > Additional comments about closing: This has been rejected numerous times: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Use r:Apg#makepkg:_shallow_git_clones > > Which provides a now dead link. > > Would anyone in the know be willing to explain why this feature is > considered outside the scope of makepkg? > > Clearly if the developers aren't interested in the feature, well then they > just won't want to support it. But if there is some rationale behind this I > am curious about it. On one hand this is pure curiosity, but on the other > hand, I use makepkg and the Arch packaging system multiple times per week > so I like to understand the design and the intent. > > Thank you! > Adam Levy (alaskanarcher) >
