For me, I'd like to see all PKGBUILDs in AUR. Then I'd like to be able to view the PKGBUILD to verify the integrity (already easily done online), and then be able to run a simple program that will automatically install from AUR without me having to manually download the pkg and makepkg it... If the pkg is in somebody's repo, I have to edit pacman.conf, and personally, I like to keep that as simple as possible... I hate adding repositiories so I can download just one or two programs from them. But that might just be me. I'm remembering days when I had a loooooooooooong list of apt-get sources that took literally an hour to update on dialup...
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Anyway, I hijacked your topic here... I recall phrakture had a script to grab PKGBUILDs from AUR, so it shouldn't be hard for me to extend this to automatically build too.
The big problem with cherry-picking packages is that you never get updates. Even with a phrakture+srcpac+magic set of scripts, updating won't be as robust as pacman (you'd essentially be rewriting all the update logic from pacman). Jason -- If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.