On Tuesday, April 07, 2015 12:46:41 AM Justin Dray wrote:
Hi,
I was just wondering what the process is when someone finds duplicate pacakges? Assuming I'm not the owner of either package, but someone has uploaded foo and foobar and both provide the same thing, what would be the best we to get that resolved? It's quite annoying to have to read 2+ pkgbuilds to see which one is actually decent when all I want to be able to do is install the package.
Regards, Justin
To Justin, When comparing packages on the AUR, you should check the source in the PKGBUILD. You can only claim that the packages are the same if they contain the same source. In fact, when compiling from the AUR, you should be reading source code anyway (not just PKGBUILD code). Regards, Mark