On Tue 16 Nov 2010 23:17 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote:
How can we make the AUR even better? I'll start:
1. Integrated distributed version control system 2. User provided binaries (if case anyone wants to volunteer) (this should probably be carefully controlled) 3. Time-adjusted 'relevance' measure (votes are useful but suck at the same time; nobody cares if a packages was upvoted 9000+ times a million years ago, especially if it's already been obsoleted by something else) 4. An official client 5. LDAP support because LDAP makes everything so much better
I'd almost say I'd like to see something like a Launchpad or Sourceforge for the AUR, with everything you need available via a more-or-less homogenous interface. But all features should be accessible via the command line as the core interface. It seems like everything out there is web based which bugs me for some reason.