[aur-general] State of community64

[Aaron Griffin]

On Jan 4, 2008 11:52 AM, Ronald van Haren <pressh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Before I contact Aaron I would first like to get some things straight.
>
> As I understand we have two options for arch INdependent packages. Either
> using Aaron's x86_64 build machine, or using the scripts ^^ from François.
> For arch dependent packages however we only can rely on Aaron's build
> machine. Now the big question is how reliable is the output for these
> packages, so the overall quality of the packages doesn't drop. How many
> people actually do use it, and do they find the output to be reliable ?

pacman and makepkg will, in the near future, support
architecture-independent packages, so these scripts are more of a
stop-gap measure

However, this also depends on the maintainers of the backend scripts
that run the community repo too, which will need modification