[arch-general] Cannot install shaman from AUR

[Xavier Chantry]

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:36 AM, xenof0nt <xenof0nt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry there is no other alternative. The only solution is Shaman2 but
> currently is in Alpha stage. That means it is highly unstable and dangerous
> for your system.
> Arch will never provide a graphical tool for pacman.
> So if you can't live with this, then change to another distro
>

Never say never.
Just curious, where does that come from ?
Why couldn't a sufficiently motivated developer write a GUI frontend
to libalpm good enough to get it packaged ?
This actually happened with shaman, it was packaged in community by
the main makepkg developer, Allan !