Re: [aur-general] When does a package need -svn?

Andrei Thorp garoth@gmail.com wrote:

Some other options:

• He could have a "hidden" folder somewhere with the sources. He then

could just not tell people about that.

• You could do some serious hacks and have a script click through the

download dialog and get the source as a human would. Bad for PKGBUILDS.

The SVN route is pretty good, I think.

-AT

I initially thought about the "secret" direct link too but that really would ruin his nag system as Philipp mentioned because the direct link would eventually become common knowledge.

I agree that the SVN checkout is probably the best compromise in absence of a direct link to the tarball.

/Xyne