[arch-general] Server Space for Arch Downloads / AUR / ABS for small X additions the Arch Community might enjoy?

[Shridhar Daithankar]

On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:31:13 David C. Rankin wrote:
> 	I have several good collections of miscellaneous kde themes, kdm/gdm
>  themes, metacity, gtk-2, xcursors, etc.. that I would like to find how
>  best to contribute them to the community. The color-schemes, gnome and kde
>  layout are original and the are available from gnome-look, kde-look, etc.
>  (all GPL), but given all the 3rd party redirection that those sites put
>  you through to find any given file, it is almost not worth downloading
>  them anymore one-at-a-time (same applies to many of the other 'now
>  commercialized' sites).
> 
> 	If this is something that you guys may be interested in, my main question
>  is I don't know whether it would be better to put them together as several
>  AUR package, ABS package or whether Arch has a place for this type of
>  stuff. I generally just make them available on my server at
>  3111skyline.com, but I'm limited to 384k upstream so putting a bunch of
>  material out for community wide download can result in logjams. The idea
>  here is to just make it convenient for Arch users to have a convenient
>  couple of packages to install to get a good cross-section of some of the
>  better desktop packages themes, cursors, etc.. that are a real pain to go
>  search for, find and download separately.

Why don't you host a repo? I can host a subdomain at dreamhost for you if you 
want.

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Regards 
 Shridhar