On 12/29/2010 08:56 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:43:46 +0200 schrieb Evangelos Foutras<foutrelis@gmail.com>:
Personally, I don't feel strong either way. As it was explained to me on IRC, cower doesn't include any building or installation functionality, it only searches for packages, downloads them, and can also check for updates to installed, unsupported, packages. But when I see how many times people ask for adding packages from base-devel like gcc or pkg-config to depends and how many people don't read the AUR and ABS wiki pages I'm not sure that such tools should be in the repos.
Heiko I know I am not a TU, though I figured I would put in my "two-cents". I agree it may be bad for first time users to have an AUR helper if they don't understand there is risks. Though this gave me a idea, that may not be liked or approved of, maybe if we split AUR into either packages with the most votes or maintainers that are concidered trusted or been around a while, from the vice versa. Kind of a trusted of the unsupported packages. Going along with the assumption that the idea would work and approved of, create a AUR helper, that would be in the community repo, that will only pull from the trusted AUR.