On Friday 25 March 2011 07:52:42 David C. Rankin wrote:
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>    I'm not sure why this is needed since the PKGBUILD process takes place
> in a *newly* created src directory that is *outside* the svn tree. This
> will take a rewrite of all PKGBUILDS to accommodate this change.

newly created src != out of source

I made out-of-source mode mandatory because too many people have weird 
building problems and I waste far too much time to debug it.

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Serghei