On 3 February 2011 11:14, Xyne
Hi,
A post on the forum[1] brought my attention to the Official Repositories wiki page[2].
A recent note by Louipc states: "Technically, both the [community] and [unsupported] repos make up the AUR.".
Is this really still true? The AUR website is completely independent of [community] now and I believe that all technical ties between [community] and [unsupported] have been severed.
AUR pages on the wiki clearly refer to [unsupported] in many contexts, e.g. the main AUR article[3] contains the following snippets:
"The Arch User Repository (AUR) is a community-driven repository for Arch users. It contains package descriptions (PKGBUILDs) that allow you to compile a package from source with makepkg and then install it via pacman."
"[community], unlike AUR, contains binary packages"
I also believe that most users immediately think of [unsupported] and only [unsupported] when speaking of the AUR.
Furthermore, both are repositories in their own right, so it is a misnomer to refer to them as a singular "Arch User Repository".
What is the point of claiming that [community] is part of AUR? It seems like an unnecessarily confusing vestige of [community]'s origins.
Clearly, the move to devtools has decoupled the binary repository from the AUR web, but I don't think it has decoupled the repository from its purpose.