On 12/29/2010 09:46 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
On 30/12/10 12:16, Dan McGee wrote:
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/cower/
Thoughts? I was under the impression we didn't do this, and definitely on purpose, otherwise people have *no* idea the AUR is different in a lot of ways. Making people go the "hard way" to get a helper installed at least presents some (necessary) barrier.
I have not used this, but I understand that it only automates the downloading of PKGBUILDs for the packages. You still need to manually build them. So, I am less against including this in the repos than something that does the building too. Still, it is a fine line...
When we first launched the AUR, we thought about this a lot. I agree it's a fine line, but I think the package build step is the right place for the line. This is close to the line-- but that's where the optimal efficiency lies. Of course, this is just my opinion. I fully support any decision of the developers and TUs that might be more conservative for practical/empirical reasons. But I would object to policies that allowed automatic building of packages from untrusted PKBUILDs. - P