Hidden dependency of pacbuilder in Arch Linux

pacbuilder is a useful tool in Arch Linux when you try to rebuild all the packages from the source, regardless of the repository(ABS or AUR).

But seldom someone notices the idea that the tool has the hidden package dependency of pacbuilder - sudo. I didn’t know that and in the pacbuilder-svn AUR there was no indication of the dependency. I had to read the script itself and modify some of the codes to see the blackholed message myself.

If you try pacbuilder(like pacbuilder -v —world) but you encountered error such as “makepkg failed”, just run pacman -S sudo and everything would work fine. I think I’ll report a new PKGBUILD for the package in AUR.