I'm the maintainer of "brackets" package on AUR. It's a code editor written in javascript upon NodeJS library. Nodejs package from community repo ships "npm", a command-line tool to manage nodejs packages. To satisfy nodejs dependency for my package, should I use npm inside build() function in my PKGBUILD (solution that I prefer and now I'm using), or should I create an AUR tarball for every dpendency, and add all those ones inside depends() array? I want to point out that this is the list of *build *dependencies for brackets "grunt": "0.4.1", "jasmine-node": "1.11.0", "grunt-jasmine-node": "0.1.0", "grunt-cli": "0.1.9", "phantomjs": "1.9.0-1", "grunt-lib-phantomjs": "0.3.0", "grunt-contrib-jshint": "0.6.0", "grunt-contrib-watch": "0.4.3", "grunt-contrib-jasmine": "0.4.2", "grunt-template-jasmine-requirejs": "0.1.0", "grunt-contrib-cssmin": "0.6.0", "grunt-contrib-clean": "0.4.1", "grunt-contrib-copy": "0.4.1", "grunt-contrib-htmlmin": "0.1.3", "grunt-contrib-less": "0.8.2", "grunt-contrib-requirejs": "0.4.1", "grunt-contrib-uglify": "0.2.0", "grunt-contrib-concat": "0.3.0", "grunt-targethtml": "0.2.6", "grunt-usemin": "0.1.11", "load-grunt-tasks": "0.2.0", "q": "0.9.2", "jshint": "2.1.4", "xmldoc": "^0.1.2" You could imagine how frustrating would be for me to maintain all this AUR tarball, and for an user to keep them updated without using an AUR helper (that I don't like).