On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Daniel Micay danielmicay@gmail.com 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.
Yeah, I mean no offense to the current rule, but AUR is a fantastic part of Arch and not having *anything* which can install an AUR package in Community seems... disingenuous to the adoption of AUR from a fresh install. I understand this can be a political battle ("which AUR helper is best") but cower sure seems like a great candidate to just help people get started.
$0.02, -te
On 28/11/14 12:47 PM, Troy Engel wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Daniel Micay danielmicay@gmail.com 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.
Yeah, I mean no offense to the current rule, but AUR is a fantastic part of Arch and not having *anything* which can install an AUR package in Community seems... disingenuous to the adoption of AUR from a fresh install. I understand this can be a political battle ("which AUR helper is best") but cower sure seems like a great candidate to just help people get started.
$0.02, -te
Not having a way to install an AUR package draws a clear line between supported packages and unsupported ones. Anyone can upload an AUR package so pretending it's anything but untrusted, totally arbitrary code would be dangerous.
However, cower *does not* support installing AUR packages, only downloading and searching them. That's why I think we could revisit this rule in the future and refine it.
However, the status quo is that it's not permitted in [community].
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