Hello!
I
recently learned that the AUR seems to have an actively enforced
moderation policy preventing packages that either only
work on aarch64, or are otherwise heavily focused/only useful on that
platform.
RFC0032
hasn't finalized yet, and of course it could still end up being
rejected or otherwise put on indefinite hiatus... My outsider
perspective is that it likely will happen though, so I'm working under that assumption.
In
this case, it's only a matter of time before non-x86 communities are
accumulating around Arch upstream proper. RFC0032 already notes that:
- Ideally, the AUR web interface / API is extended to allow filtering packages by architecture.
I have a concrete proposal here. Let's say I (or someone else) were to
contribute the necessary changes to aurweb, such that it exposed architecture info in the RPC (archlinux/aurweb#485), as well as adding support for
filtering by architecture when searching. If this happened, and the
search box on the AUR homepage defaulted to x86, would it be possible to
relax the current moderation policy that restricts aarch64-only
packages from living in the AUR?
-Sam