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authorDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2007-11-08 23:38:32 -0600
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2007-11-08 23:38:32 -0600
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Small manpage updates
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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Description
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-makepkg is a script to automate the building of packages. All it needs is a
-build-capable Linux platform and a custom build script for each package you
-wish to build (known as a PKGBUILD). See manlink:PKGBUILD[5] for details on
-creating your own build scripts.
+makepkg is a script to automate the building of packages. The requirements for
+using the script are a build-capable \*nix platform and a custom build script
+for each package you wish to build (known as a PKGBUILD). See
+manlink:PKGBUILD[5] for details on creating your own build scripts.
The advantage to a script-based build is that the work is only done once. Once
you have the build script for a package, makepkg will do the rest: download and