kitsunyan
unnecessary builds under certain circumstances
Im not sure if this is really a problem of pakku, but pls have a look at the eclipse-* packages in AUR.
I wanted to install one of it (pakku -S eclipse-php), but it downloads and builds all 6 (eclipse-java, -jee, -cpp, -php, -javascript and -rust).
The problem ist described in comments-section on https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/eclipse/ but it seems noone there is willing to fix it.
This is due to the way the PKGBUILD has been written. To change this behaviour, you could edit the PKGBUILD when prompted by the Pakku build process. If you are working on modifying or creating a PKGBUILD it's usually easier to use makepkg directly though. This requires some study to understand how the PKGBUILD works, and probably a little trial and error to create a working version. This AUR package may provide a helpful reference for comparison: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=lombok There is also a binary version of eclipse-java in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/eclipse-java-bin/ Perhaps you could modify that to install a binary eclipse-php package, there's no reason why you cannot create and use your own PKGBUILD's, it's one of the advantages of the system.
With this PKGBUILD it's quite simple to modify thanks to the way it's written, when you are asked this by pakku, type y: :: View and edit eclipse/PKGBUILD? [Y/n/s/a/?] y
Then change these 2 lines:
pkgname=(eclipse-{java,jee,cpp,php,javascript,rust}) sha256sums_x86_64=('2193208753cae8505b4926386dc7bb71cb665929180bf8c1a63dda0251dbaaf1' # Java '7349e3051925c6ec88f03036f40b3f493e62e252d050e86493a9ceea5d1ab1b2' # Jee 'b5678a117da21912178d4188b8b6976b578dc03a38669eb4c8e16dd71c74747a' # C++ 'a681e8e65835f75ad8b9a7da8e11ded90ea4d8bda82b8133a8debd1852ec37b9' # PHP 'e1152efe94be5c00d8abf1ed135234404c9affb309336600e7ef3d1dd9dfa3e4' # JS '797ac2190c110d556a1a9b7e4fa327a5f0ca1814006397f89158d59109943a6e') # Rust
To this:
pkgname=(eclipse-php) sha256sums_x86_64=('a681e8e65835f75ad8b9a7da8e11ded90ea4d8bda82b8133a8debd1852ec37b9') # PHP
And then it works and builds / downloads eclipse-php and nothing else. I expect the same method can be applied to the other possible variants. If you wanted to save the modified PKGBUILD for future reference then look in /tmp/pakku-$USER/eclipse and save a copy before it gets wiped on reboot.