[aur-general] storming in for no reason with crazy ideas

[Callan Barrett]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Additionally, the AUR is going to need to be able to import or use
> info from the main package DBs in this case. This gives us a lot of
> advantages, but forces us to couple some things. Unless, of course,
> you wanted to go the route the main site went: parse a db.tar.gz file
> and put the data into the DBs.

I suppose I'm missing something here. If we moved community to a
normal repo why would the AUR have any notion of what the main repos
are and what they contain? I'm thinking of stuff like checking for
duplicates packages but I don't know if that's what you're talking
about.

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Callan Barrett