Well, I have seen PKGBUILDs with arbitrary logic defining the metadata: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=weborf&id=85fafbf0b1489ac2ff9a75

Well, I have seen PKGBUILDs with arbitrary logic defining the metadata: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=weborf&id=85fafbf0b1489ac2ff9a7516ce44221a3f9a67fc https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=webor... Which is what necessitated a separate, statically-parseable .SRCINFO.