[aur-general] Breaking the unspoken rule: AUR helper in [community]

[Xyne]

Loui Chang wrote:

> Please bottom post.
> Anyways, what you're speaking of is probably a feature that is best
> implemented on the client side.
> 
> You could probably hack something up that interfaces with the current
> AUR though. The RPC will return a list of packages by a named
> maintainer via msearch. See http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php
> 

That's  Bauerbill does with its "TrustedUsers" option. It would be much
more practical though if the maintainer were included in the results of an
"info" request, and maybe even whether the user is a TU.