On Sat, 2015-10-17 at 21:26 -0500, Daniel Wallace wrote:
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson@archlinux.org> wrote: My question about this is if we allow this into the repositories, an ability to go get unsupported package easily to install on your system even with a warning about the fact that they are not supported... can we put AUR helpers into the repositories?
There is an important difference between our outdated packages and external packages, which may not have the level of quality and trust we expect in official repositories. Moreover, an AUR package is potentially harmful, where outdated package aren't. AUR helpers you mention are used to get external contents, where agetpkg helps to retrieve previous packages in order to troubleshoot or rescue a broken system. There is nothing more allowed that you can already do with pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/X. So, in my opinion, adding AURs helpers it's a different topic. Cheers, -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://seblu.net | Twitter: @seblu42 GPG: 0x2072D77A