When a package has hundreds of votes, what keeps it from getting promoted into Community? I'm talking specifically about cower:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cower/
Bootstrapping AUR on fresh installs is manual, what's the reason cower hasn't been promoted to Community so it's easy to install with pacman and have AUR usable out-of-the-box? (apologies if this has been discussed before and I'm opening some sort of hornet's nest)
-te
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:29:45AM -0600, Troy Engel wrote:
When a package has hundreds of votes, what keeps it from getting promoted into Community? I'm talking specifically about cower:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cower/
Bootstrapping AUR on fresh installs is manual, what's the reason cower hasn't been promoted to Community so it's easy to install with pacman and have AUR usable out-of-the-box? (apologies if this has been discussed before and I'm opening some sort of hornet's nest)
-te
Fun fact, cower *was* in [community] for a very short period of time:
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-December/018893.h...
It shall never return.
On 28/11/14 12:32 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:
It shall never return.
Never say never, the rules could be revisited one day :P. It makes sense to forbid automatic installation, but it's a bit silly to forbid search / downloading from the AUR when we permit it for other third party dumping grounds like PyPi.
On 28/11, Daniel Micay wrote:
On 28/11/14 12:32 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:
It shall never return.
Never say never, the rules could be revisited one day :P. It makes sense to forbid automatic installation, but it's a bit silly to forbid search / downloading from the AUR when we permit it for other third party dumping grounds like PyPi.
Especially when burp is allowed to be in there too.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:29:45AM -0600, Troy Engel wrote:
When a package has hundreds of votes, what keeps it from getting promoted into Community? I'm talking specifically about cower:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cower/
Bootstrapping AUR on fresh installs is manual, what's the reason cower hasn't been promoted to Community so it's easy to install with pacman and have AUR usable out-of-the-box? (apologies if this has been discussed before and I'm opening some sort of hornet's nest)
-te
It appears that there are intentionally no AUR helpers in the official repo.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR:
Warning: There is not and will never be an official mechanism for installing build material from the AUR. All AUR users should be familiar with the build process.
Cower is a little different since it does not automate the building, but the idea seems to apply.
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